Games like Colonial Winds
If Colonial Winds is your kind of game, the closest matches are Whiskerwood, Nova Roma and Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Colonial Winds: Grow your colony from a small outpost into a thriving nation in this city-building game. Step into the shoes of a colonial governor as you build production chains, establish trade, meet the needs of your citizens, and guide your settlement toward self-rule.
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Whiskerwood
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Top pick for Colonial Winds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Colonial Winds.
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Nova Roma
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Second-strongest match for Colonial Winds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Colonial Winds.
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
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Third-strongest match for Colonial Winds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Colonial Winds.
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Grand Ages: Medieval
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Ranked #4 for Colonial Winds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Colonial Winds.
Rise from the humble role of a simple mayor governing a small settlement and rule over all of Europe.
Pharaoh™: A New Era
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Ranked #5 for Colonial Winds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Colonial Winds.
The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.
Pioneers of Pagonia
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Ranked #6 for Colonial Winds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Colonial Winds.
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
The Guild II Renaissance
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Ranked #7 for Colonial Winds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Colonial Winds.
For centuries Europe has been dominated by the church and nobility. On the shoulders of ordinary people the servants of god and the noble families justified their power and wealth. This was the incontrovertible, divine world order. A truly dark era… In the 14th Century the world order is beginning to transform itself.
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization
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Ranked #8 for Colonial Winds fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Colonial Winds.
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization is the third offering in the award winning Civilization IV series. A re-imagining of the classic Colonization game Sid Meier created in 1994, Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization is a total conversion of the Civilization IV engine into a game experience in which players will lead a European...
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Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Colonial Winds.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Colonial Winds.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Colonial Winds.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Colonial Winds.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Colonial Winds.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
The Sims™ 4
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Colonial Winds.
Play with life and discover the possibilities. Unleash your imagination and create a world of Sims that’s wholly unique. Explore and customize every detail from Sims to homes–and much more.
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Frequently asked about Colonial Winds
- What games are most similar to Colonial Winds?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Colonial Winds are Whiskerwood, Nova Roma, Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic.
- Who developed Colonial Winds?
- Colonial Winds was developed by Dark Shift Games.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Colonial Winds.
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