I play a few colony management games like RimWorld and Dwarf Fortress. Do you play any colony management games? Do you like them? What do you think separates colony simulators from traditional strategy games?
I do not specifically play colony management games but I play RTS games and some of these games have colony management. For example, I play Northgard, it has colony management feature. I have also recently started playing Dune: Spice Wars.