Games like Rise to Ruins
Games like Rise to Ruins include RimWorld, Oxygen Not Included, Banished, Frostpunk, and They Are Billions. We matched them by the tags players give Rise to Ruins on Steam (Tower Defense, Colony Sim, City Builder, Strategy, and Survival): closest matches first, and among equally close ones the better-known games.

RimWorld
Shared: Colony Sim · Strategy · Survival

Oxygen Not Included
Shared: Colony Sim · Survival · Base Building

Banished
Shared: Colony Sim · City Builder · Strategy

Frostpunk
Shared: City Builder · Survival · Strategy

They Are Billions
Shared: Colony Sim · Strategy · Tower Defense

Manor Lords
Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Base Building

Dwarf Fortress
Shared: Colony Sim · Strategy · City Builder

Prison Architect
Shared: Colony Sim · Strategy · Simulation

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

Kingdom Two Crowns
Shared: Tower Defense · City Builder · Base Building

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

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

Going Medieval
Shared: Colony Sim · Strategy · Base Building

Against the Storm
Shared: Strategy · City Builder · Base Building

Songs of Syx
Shared: Colony Sim · City Builder · Strategy

Space Haven
Shared: Colony Sim · Strategy · Survival

Empires of the Undergrowth
Shared: Strategy · City Builder · Colony Sim

Planetbase
Shared: Colony Sim · City Builder · Strategy

Ostriv
Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Colony Sim

The Universim
Shared: Colony Sim · City Builder · Survival

Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
Shared: City Builder · Strategy · Base Building

Infection Free Zone
Shared: City Builder · Base Building · Strategy

Timberborn
Shared: Colony Sim · City Builder · Survival

Stonehearth
Shared: Colony Sim · City Builder · Survival