Games like Exile
Games like Exile include Banished, Frostpunk, Manor Lords, Kingdoms and Castles, and RimWorld. We matched them by the tags players give Exile on Steam (City Builder, Strategy, Colony Sim, Simulation, and Survival): closest matches first, and among equally close ones the better-known games.

Banished
Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Colony Sim

Frostpunk
Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Survival

Manor Lords
Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Simulation

Kingdoms and Castles
Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Strategy

RimWorld
Shared: Colony Sim · Strategy · Survival

Dwarf Fortress
Shared: Colony Sim · Strategy · City Builder

Oxygen Not Included
Shared: Colony Sim · Survival · Building

Cities: Skylines
Shared: City Builder · Simulation · Strategy

Against the Storm
Shared: Strategy · City Builder · Simulation

Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Simulation

Foundation
Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Simulation

Dawn of Man
Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Strategy

Endzone - A World Apart
Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Survival

Empires of the Undergrowth
Shared: Strategy · City Builder · Simulation

Prison Architect
Shared: Simulation · Colony Sim · Strategy

Ostriv
Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Simulation

Settlement Survival
Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Survival

Farthest Frontier
Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Building

Going Medieval
Shared: Colony Sim · Strategy · City Builder

Timberborn
Shared: City Builder · Colony Sim · Building

Norland
Shared: Strategy · City Builder · Simulation

Cities: Skylines II
Shared: City Builder · Simulation · Strategy

IXION
Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Survival

Jurassic World Evolution
Shared: Simulation · Strategy · City Builder