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Games like The Colonists
Codebyfire · 2018 · 85 % positive of 1,161
24 games that play like The Colonists and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Autonauts, Common'hood and Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder.
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What games like The Colonists have in common
- The tags they share most often with The Colonists: Colony Sim (24 of 24), City Builder (21) and Building (15).
- They came out between 2015 and 2026, 17 of them after The Colonists (2018).
- Best rated by Steam players: Autonauts (89 % positive of 4,785).
- 5 games both play and look like The Colonists, among them Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder, Kubifaktorium and Settlement Survival.
By gameplay
Plays like The Colonists
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

Autonauts
89 % positive of 4,785
Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Automation

Common'hood
52 % positive of 330
Shared: Colony Sim · Automation · Building

Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder
73 % positive of 701
Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Automation

Astro Colony
82 % positive of 2,256
Shared: Colony Sim · Automation · Building

My Colony
92 % positive of 238
Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Strategy

Kubifaktorium
80 % positive of 760
Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Automation

Planetbase
79 % positive of 9,852
Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Building

Settlement Survival
86 % positive of 7,280
Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Building

Sapiens
84 % positive of 2,010
Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Building

Aven Colony
72 % positive of 2,638
Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Management

Before We Leave
78 % positive of 1,637
Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Building

Mini Settlers
88 % positive of 470
Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Automation
More matches
- Surviving Mars84 % positive of 26,570Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Building
- Synergy83 % positive of 560Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Building
- Per Aspera75 % positive of 5,484Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Automation
- The Spatials: Galactology69 % positive of 255Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Building
- Make Your Kingdom58 % positive of 193Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Building
- Make Your Kingdom: Prologue77 % positive of 420Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Building
- Stonehearth75 % positive of 12,729Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Building
- Farlanders: Prologue92 % positive of 280Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Building
- Imagine Earth81 % positive of 923Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Building
- Farlanders93 % positive of 524Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Building
- Unclaimed World50 % positive of 208Shared: Colony Sim · Survival · Sandbox
- Havendock85 % positive of 1,399Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Automation
By look
Looks like The Colonists
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

Zombie Cure Lab
71 % positive of 402

Make Your Kingdom
58 % positive of 193

Settlement Survival
86 % positive of 7,280

Settlements Rising
83 % positive of 335

Of Life and Land
87 % positive of 263

ISLANDERS
94 % positive of 16,316

FOUNDRY
78 % positive of 2,783

Kubifaktorium
80 % positive of 760

Sintopia
80 % positive of 1,110

Going Medieval
89 % positive of 18,506

Kingdoms and Castles
93 % positive of 29,715

Modulus: Factory Automation
91 % positive of 885
More matches
- MMORPG Tycoon 286 % positive of 2,861
- Astronomics90 % positive of 417
- Before We Leave78 % positive of 1,637
- Terra Nil87 % positive of 6,987
- Airborne Empire91 % positive of 477
- Pan'orama89 % positive of 1,155
- Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder73 % positive of 701
- Whiskerwood92 % positive of 3,948
- Earth Space Colonies49 % positive of 166
- Rise of Industry73 % positive of 4,100
- Train Valley 290 % positive of 2,871
- Tower Factory86 % positive of 687
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.