The Best Colony Games for Nintendo Switch

Update 13 December 2023: Winter Games Challenge added at rank #16.

Here are our 10 Best Colony Games for Nintendo Switch:

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In Tropical Resort Story, you get to develop your own lush island full of nature and create the most luxurious resort possible. From building accommodations to discovering great travel packages, you can make your guests' dreams come true. Improve the ocean water quality by adding marine plants and rocks in the ocean, and releasing fish you've caught while fishing. With more tourists visiting your island, you get to open stores and restaurants, and even create new products. This game will keep you hooked on creating your tropical paradise!

• Ability to create immersive natural environment
• Opportunity to collaborate with business partners
• Discovering winning combinations of features
• Colorful and appealing graphics and sound effects
• Easy to learn and play

• Janky handling on desktop
• Narrow grid range makes building efficiency difficult
• Limited challenge, low pressure gameplay

• colony
• simulation
• city-building
• 2d
• casual
• nature
• building
• pixel
• cute
• colourful
• relaxing
• fishing

Good match + 19 Bad match - 1

Play Video: Kingdom Eighties

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

Good match + 5 Bad match

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Serve up food, drinks, and smiles in this retro cafe management sim!

• simulation
• colony
• life
• cooking
• city-building
• 2d
• sandbox
• pixel
• casual
• table
• top-down
• building

Good match + 6 Bad match

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Well, what are you waiting for? Build a top-ranking zoo, set social media ablaze, and show the world your wild side!

• simulation
• colony
• zoo
• zoo-goers
• top-ranking
• nature
• life
• city-building
• pixel
• casual
• top-down
• building
• snow
• romance
• 2d

Good match + 6 Bad match

Play Video: Kingdom: Two Crowns

Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS Playstation 4 Xbox One IOS iPhone Linux Android

In Kingdom Two Crowns, players must work in the brand-new solo or co-op campaign mode to build their kingdom and secure it from the threat of the Greed. Experience new technology, units, enemies, mounts, and secrets in the next evolution of the award-winning micro strategy franchise!

• micro
• medieval
• pixel
• colony
• strategy
• side-scrolling
• cooperative
• base-building
• tower-defense
• city-building
• simulation
• building
• scroller
• survival
• 2d

Good match + 46 Bad match - 93

Play Video: EarthX

Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS PC Windows Android

EarthX is a rocket company management game. Go from launching small rockets on Earth to eventually building a colony on Mars. Create your own Internet constellation, develop new technologies, supply the International Space Station and terraform Mars!

• space
• simulation
• family-friendly
• colony
• management
• grand-strategy
• base-building
• immersive
• building
• education
• competitive
• minimalist
• atmospheric
• 3d
• relaxing

Good match + 5 Bad match

Play Video: The Hundred Year Kingdom

Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Create a world free of conflict in this innovative turn-based simulation. Work together with a mythical young goddess to develop a peaceful civilization over the course of a century.

• city-building
• turn-based
• simulation
• colony
• historical
• lore
• building
• anime
• time-management
• immersive
• multiple-endings
• management
• pixel
• choices
• romance

Good match + 68 Bad match - 145

Play Video: One More Island

Nintendo Switch PC Windows

As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!

• colony
• city-building
• base-building
• building
• simulation
• economy
• trading
• top-down
• management
• exploration
• ipad
• survival
• resource-management
• 2d

Good match + 7 Bad match - 7

Play Video: As Far As The Eye

PC Windows Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch

Build a mobile village and travel with your tribe toward the center of the world, called The Eye. This roguelike turn-based resource-management game is made of procedural situations, natural events, skill-trees and hard choices. Ready to move?

• hex
• city-building
• colony
• resource-management
• rogue-like
• strategy
• turn-based
• tabletop
• building
• grid
• management
• sandbox
• survival
• 4x
• resource

Good match + 45 Bad match - 63

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Movie Studio Management Simulation Produce blockbusters and earn world-wide fame

• simulation
• colony
• life
• movie
• city-building
• strategy
• casual

Good match + 4 Bad match

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