
Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, Survival, Strategy, Singleplayer.

Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.

RimWorld
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Colony Survival
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.6% ★, Base Building 16.8%, Survival 7%, Sandbox 6.3%, Moddable 6.1% ★
Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.4% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Survival 8.1%, Building 7.9%, Sandbox 6.4%
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
Why similar: Colony Sim 51.4% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Building 7%, Sandbox 5.7%, Survival 5.1%
Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.3% ★, Base Building 19%, Survival 7.5%, Strategy 5.3%, Building 4.5%
Build, scavenge, craft, and perform occult rituals to survive in a demon-infested, post-apocalyptic colony simulation. Will you survive Judgment day?
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.4% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Survival 8.5%, Sandbox 5.9%, Crafting 5%
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
Why similar: Colony Sim 55.2% ★, Building 9.8%, Sandbox 9.2%, Survival 7.3%, Strategy 5.1%
Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.7% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 7.7%, Strategy 6.2%, Simulation 5.7%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.2% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Building 8%, Sandbox 7.9%, Survival 7.3%
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34% ★, Base Building 24.5%, Survival 11.6%, Crafting 8.3%, Strategy 6.3%
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6% ★, Base Building 15.1%, Building 8.1%, Sandbox 7.6%, Moddable 7.3% ★
Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 9%, Building 6.5%, Strategy 6.3%
Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.
Why similar: Colony Sim 54.3% ★, Building 12.1%, Sandbox 9.9%, Strategy 7.1%, Survival 5.9%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.3% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Building 9.9%, Survival 7.5%, Sandbox 6.5%
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.5% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Building 7.3%, Crafting 6.4%, Survival 6.1%
Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.9% ★, Base Building 16.6%, Building 8.8%, Crafting 7.4%, Sandbox 6.6%
Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.5% ★, Sandbox 11%, Building 7.8%, Survival 6.5%, Crafting 6.4%
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.9% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Survival 7.5%, Sandbox 7.5%, Moddable 6.5% ★
Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.5% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Sandbox 7.3%, Crafting 7.1%, Survival 7%
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Why similar: Colony Sim 54.6% ★, Base Building 10.6%, Building 9%, Sandbox 6.7%, Strategy 6.6%
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37% ★, Base Building 15.8%, Sandbox 8.2%, Moddable 7.9% ★, Survival 7.3%
Build a new home for humanity in Aven Colony. Discover Aven Prime - an alien planet of deserts, tundras, and wetlands light years from earth. Build your colonies into massive, sprawling cities whilst dealing with the challenges faced when settling on a new world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 62.3% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Strategy 7.3%, Simulation 5.4%, Survival 3.1%
Common’hood is a community building and economy management game with highly customizable base building tools. Scavenge for materials, grow your own food, research new technology, craft new tools, build a home, make friends. Form your community and take it from surviving to thriving!
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5% ★, Base Building 17.2%, Building 10.1%, Crafting 8.9%, Sandbox 7.8%
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.3% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Building 9%, Sandbox 8.8%, Survival 7.6%
Buoyancy is a city-building strategy game where you build, manage, and move a floating city on an oceanic world. Explore and scavenge resources scattered around the endless waters. Keep your villagers nourished and happy while combating fires, sickness, and pirate attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 63.3% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Strategy 7.1%, Survival 6.1%, Open World 3.2%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.6% ★, Base Building 19.3%, Sandbox 8.4%, Building 7.9%, Survival 5.5%
Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.3% ★, Base Building 16.2%, Sandbox 8.9%, Building 7.8%, Moddable 6.3% ★
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Why similar: Colony Sim 64.1% ★, Survival 8.4%, Strategy 7%, Sandbox 6.1%, Simulation 5.8%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.8% ★, Base Building 22.3%, Building 8.3%, Sandbox 6.9%, Crafting 6.3%
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.5% ★, Base Building 11.1%, Building 11%, Survival 8.7%, Sandbox 7.4%
In a nuclear apocalypse, you have to use your engineering skills to save as many survivors as possible. Defending, mining, crafting, creating production lines, and building an underground city for the survivors is your goal in this 2d side-scrolling automation game.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.8% ★, Base Building 14%, Building 8.2%, Crafting 7.3%, Sandbox 7.2%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34% ★, Base Building 16.7%, Sandbox 9.1%, Crafting 8.6%, Building 8.5%
LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.
Why similar: Colony Sim 64.3% ★, Building 7%, Survival 6.7%, Strategy 6%, Simulation 4.2%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.5% ★, Base Building 19%, Sandbox 9.5%, Crafting 8.6%, Building 6.4%
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 66.6% ★, Survival 10.7%, Strategy 7.1%, Sandbox 5.8%, Simulation 4.6%
Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.8% ★, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 10.7%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 6.9%
From a small 2-man team comes a unique space station management sim. Take on the role of an A.I commanding a lost space ark. Try not to let your crew run amok and wreck the place.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.4% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Sandbox 9.8%, Building 8.8%, Survival 6.8%
They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.9% ★, Base Building 28.1%, Survival 8.7%, Strategy 6.5%, Building 4.7%
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Building 8.5%, Sandbox 8.1%, Moddable 6% ★
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.8% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Survival 10.5%, Strategy 9.5%, Simulation 7.8%
Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.1% ★, Base Building 15%, Sandbox 8.3%, Building 8.3%, Moddable 7.4% ★
Build a prosperous settlement in a unique simulation of a feudal economy - each family runs their shop, owns their goods, and trades with other villagers in a free market. You will manage the land, build houses, organise events, set taxes, and balance supply and demand while engaging in diplomacy!
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.8% ★, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8.3%, Management 6.9%, Crafting 6.9%
A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 57.5% ★, Base Building 16%, Survival 8.5%, Strategy 6.4%, Sandbox 5.3%
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9% ★, Base Building 15%, Building 7.9%, Sandbox 7.8%, Moddable 7.2% ★
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.1% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Sandbox 9.3%, Survival 8.7%, Building 8.6%
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.8% ★, Base Building 15.2%, Building 8%, Sandbox 7.8%, Moddable 7% ★
Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.7% ★, Building 10.6%, Sandbox 10.5%, Survival 8.3%, Management 5.6%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Base Building 20.9%, Building 18.4%, Crafting 16.8%, Survival 11.3%, Sandbox 11.1%
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34% ★, Base Building 15%, Building 8%, Sandbox 7.8%, Moddable 7.5% ★
Design, build, and manage a high school with terrific teachers and fantastic facilities or simply let your students poop in the bushes? Academia : School Simulator is a management/tycoon game where you get to decide!
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.8% ★, Base Building 17.5%, Building 9.3%, Sandbox 8.1%, Management 7.1%
Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.8% ★, Base Building 16.3%, Building 9%, Sandbox 7.8%, Survival 7.3%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.7% ★, Base Building 19.9%, Survival 8.4%, Building 6.6%, Sandbox 4.6%
A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48% ★, Base Building 20.4%, Management 6.7%, Building 6.4%, Strategy 5.6%
Discover a whole new world with Mars City Builder! Construct roads, erect buildings customize the city and take care of its safety. After all, you are the first Martian settler and this is a vast, unknown land. Develop it in any way you please!
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Sandbox 7.3%, Building 6.8%, Survival 6.6%
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.3% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 10.2%, Strategy 8.9%
Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!
Why similar: Colony Sim 39.2% ★, Base Building 17.4%, Building 9%, Sandbox 7.3%, Strategy 6%
In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.4% ★, Base Building 17.1%, Building 9.1%, Sandbox 8.2%, Survival 7.9%
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.8% ★, Base Building 17.6%, Survival 11%, Building 9.3%, Strategy 7.7%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Building 18.1%, Survival 15.5%, Sandbox 15.3%, Crafting 13.8%, Open World 12.5%