RimWorld: Sci-fi Colony Sim
RimWorld is a Strategy, Management, Construction, and Single-player video game developed by Ludeon Studios for Windows. Throughout the game, the player gets control over a character where the main mission is to ensure the survival of a colonist by fighting against various environmental as well as internal events.
As the player progresses, the game becomes progressively harder, and the player can unlock more advanced technology. The game has two modes, such as commitment mode and decision-making mode. The first mode offers the player to save the colony’s people by making the choices randomly.
The other mode lets the player experience multiple ways to respond. The player can also get control over in-game animals after domesticated or tamed them. The player must teach certain animals a few commands which allow them to obey the master. The player can ask the animals to defend or attack according to the situation. For a perfect survival, the player requires food, rest, and shelter.
#1 ZooKeeper
ZooKeeper lets you engage yourself in Building, Management, and Strategy gameplay experience, offered by Pyramid Games. In the game, you are responsible for managing all the financial operations, human resources, and the most important, taking care of animals. The objective is to make the zoo popular enough to gain vital resources to breed rare animal species. In the game, you can create a zoo in a different location to earn more cash and unlock additional content. While playing the game, you need to develop new biomes for rare animals by purchasing the land. Throughout the game, you must keep your all animals happy and in good health to succeed. As a good leader, you should hire and train your employee. You need to be aware that your workers aren’t only a huge for you, but also a massive opportunity. You have to learn how to manage your team in every situation and then pay them on time to continue your progress. ZooKeeper offers vital features such as Keeping Everyone Happy, Build and manage a great Team, Take Care of Animals, and more.
#2 CoffeeBiz Tycoon
CoffeeBiz Tycoon is a Management, Strategy, and Single-player Simulation takes place in the 2D world and allows the player to navigate the land from an isometric viewpoint. The game is developed and published by The Sociopath Software for Microsoft Windows and introduce the perfect mix of complicated business simulation and entrepreneurship. You start the game by establishing your first Coffee Kiosk to expand, brewing, and deal with competitors. In the start, the player must build the building, decorate with accessories and furniture, and then hire staff to become the master. It takes you in a world full of non-player characters and allows you to experience two different modes, such as Scenarios and Sandbox. It features a massive city to navigate, and you have a choice to decide where is the best location to start your business to grow. Four different kinds of customers are available, and each comes with different needs and demand to fulfill. You have full authority to fire and hire employee, improve business operations, research new opportunities, and more.
#3 Trains of the Orient
Trains of the Orient is a Train, 2D Strategy, and Single-player video game developed and published by Gamenesis for PC and Mac. It takes place in the 2D world and lets the player experience exciting gameplay, thrown the player back in the year 1955, where the player was an ordinary bureaucrat, but his career has gone uphill recently. Now, the party leadership assigns the player a vital task with heading the Ministry of Railways and struggle to modernize the Chinese railway network. According to the plot, the territory is still recovering from the destructive events that happened in the past, and it is in dire need of well-developed transport infrastructure. In the 2D world, the player must polish his skills, establish massive railroad networks, and then make a profit to become the master. There are several stages, and the game introduces the long game duration, ranging from the mid-1950 to the present time. While playing the game, the player will discover a comprehensive railway network of China, as well as neighboring countries of East Asia.
#4 Railroad Corporation
Railroad Corporation is a Train Management, Single-player and Multiplayer Simulation developed by Corbie Games and published by Iceberg Interactive. Relive in the Golden Age of Steam by creating your railroad empire across the nineteenth century in North America. Get ready to race against time to bring settlements together, generate and trade goods, and then develop and find new technologies. Takes place in the 3D environment, where you can embark on dream career and can make your fortune in the newly introduced world. During the gameplay, you must fulfill the requirements of each contract, and then complete challenging missions focused on historic rail networks across the US. While playing the game, you need to lay down tracks, dig massive tunnels and then raise bridges to attach settlements big and small, new and old, and more. While playing the game, you can mix resources to create a new industry and even lobby politicians to modify the law of the land. Railroad Corporation offers superb features such as Political Lobby, Establish a Railroad Network, Online Multiplayer, and more.
#5 Pixel Express
Pixel Express takes place in the 2D world where the player will experience the Train Simulation gameplay, developed and published by Angry Kid for PC. The game offers quite simple gameplay, in which the player must control the trains to avoid an accident. During the game, the player switches the junctions to alter the movement of the train and the select cargo with the train having the similar type of color and then deliver it to its location to make points. To advance through the game, the player must avoid train crashes and have fun with many 2D levels. In the game, the player is responsible for producing the chains, and he starts by delivering raw resources and then end by delivering a final product to the consumers. The objective of the player is to make resources and then restore the railroad to make his life more comfortable. There are four different seasons, and each has a unique set of levels and mechanics such as Autumn, Spring, Summer, and Winter. It comes with simple features such as Dynamic Weather System, Unique Power-ups, Emergency Cargo, Earn Resources, and more.
#6 Assault on Metaltron
Assault on Metaltron is an Action-Adventure, Strategy, Co-op, Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed and published by Blue Sunset Games. The game takes place in the metallic planet that has been threatened by mixed forces of humans and orc hordes. Therefore, Elder Golem selects you to defend the earth. It serves as the first action-mixed tower defense game where you can power-up your tower whenever you like. In the game, you play as the defender, and you aim to build towers to protect your homeland from the invasion. There are forty challenging levels that you can play either solo or in co-op. The game has lots of new towers from which you can choose your favorite one for defending the planet. In the game, the flame thrower tower releases air units, and you can use your level-up tactics to increase the power of tower, shooting speed, and more. Assault on Metaltron comes with prominent features such as Skirmish Mode, Local Solo, Forty Levels, Lots of Towers, Level-up your Tactics, and more.
#7 Space Empires III
Space Empires III is a Turn-based Strategy, Tactical, and Single-player Business Simulation developed and published by Malfador Machinations. It takes place in the futuristic sci-fi environment and lets the player experience the blend of 4X strategy gameplay with tactical and managerial elements.
However, the game will remind the player of Master of Orion, Civilization, and other strategy titles. The game puts the player in control of a planet in the solar system to make decisions about his research, build his ships in his style, and then make strategic choices.
It is set in the 2D sci-fi world where the player needs to grow his planet, create the base, and battle against enemies to take down them. The game rewards the player with points that can be used to unlock further content as advances through the game. Space Empires III includes prominent features such as Strategic Gameplay, 2D Graphics, Turn-based Combat, and more.
#8 Mini Metro
Mini Metro mixes the Strategy and Puzzle elements and supports Single-player mode developed and published by Dinosaur Polo Club. The game offers the levels based on realistic cities, passengers and the appearance of the stations. In the game, the primary task of the player is to create an efficient network for a growing city. There are lots of levels, and each level starts with three stations. Multiple shaped nodes offer the train stations. The player can build multiple routes to link train stations by drawing lines between them, and each route has its unique color. Lots of passengers reach the station with a shape that identifies the location where the passenger has to travel. It has three different modes such as Extreme, Normal, and Endless. In normal mode, each station has a limited capacity to accommodate passengers. In Endless mode, the stations don’t have limited capacity, while in Extreme mode, the lines between multiple trains stations can’t be adjusted once the position of the lines is set. With excellent mechanics, addictive gameplay, and smooth controls, Mini Metro is the best game to play.
#9 Imperialism
Imperialism is a Single-player and Multiplayer Turn-based Strategy video game created by Frog City Software and published by Strategic Simulations for Mac OS. The player steps into the shoes of the ruler of the nineteenth century country and his aim is to become the best ruler of the land by a conquest or by vote.
The game was followed by Imperialism II: Age of Exploration. It introduces two different ways to play the game such as in the fictional or in the historical scenario. However, in the first case, the player chooses one of seven different powers and begins ruling in the historic year 1815, a year which is considered by several historians the starting of the 19th-century era in the real world.
The ultimate objective is to be voted world ruler by two majority in the Council of Governors. There are many challenging levels await the player and all objectives must be completed at any cost. Imperialism includes core features such as Join an Empire, Business Simulation, Purchase Raw Materials, Different Professions, and more.
#10 Plutocracy
Plutocracy is a Strategy, Simulation, and Single-player video game developed by Redwood for Windows. Throughout the gameplay, the primary task of the player is to be strong financially and invest in the business. The game takes place in the Gilded Age, where the player has to capture the profitable companies and achieve wealth.
The player must buy companies, increase their ranks, and earn a profit. The game allows the player to engage in hundreds of events and build monopolies. The player has to determine the interaction of his economy with politics and makes an impact inwardly and outwardly of the politics by using the money.
The player can immerse himself with the capitalists, and the progression depends on the player’s decision. The game has different ways to achieve the objective of whether openly or secretly. Jump into the business adventure, make significant investments, compete for the rivals, follow a perfect strategy, and be the ultimate ruler.