Games Like AColony

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 32.9% ★, Base Building 18.7%, City Builder 11.8%, Survival 11%, Management 8%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive colony-sim experience that excels at generating unique, event-driven stories and complex survival challenges.

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Base Building 16.7%, Crafting 15.7%, Survival 15.1%, Building 13.7%, Online Co-Op 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down colony-sim that features strong co-op support, exploration, and combat, mirroring the multiplayer focus of the seed game.

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 26.8% ★, City Builder 18.3%, Base Building 15.7%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 10%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep 3D base-building and survival mechanics that require careful planning to protect your colonists from environmental threats.

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 24.8% ★, Base Building 24.6%, Survival 16.3%, Crafting 11.8%, Management 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on surviving on a dangerous alien planet through base-building, research, and managing the needs of a small group of survivors.

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 40% ★, Base Building 22.4%, Survival 13.3%, Building 9.7%, Management 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a highly detailed simulation of base-building and resource management that challenges players to survive in a hostile environment.

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 24.8% ★, City Builder 15.4%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 11.2%, Survival 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines colony management with economic systems and survival in a unique, challenging underground setting.

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 32.3% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Survival 11.1%, Building 10.1%, City Builder 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony sim that supports multiplayer and focuses on base defense and resource gathering.

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 35% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 14.6%, Building 8.6%, Survival 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: An accessible colony-sim that balances building, community management, and defending against supernatural threats.

A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7% ★, City Builder 13.3%, Base Building 12.1%, Immersive Sim 8.4%, Building 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic colony-sim that emphasizes survival, base-building, and tactical defense against threats.

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 25.8% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 15.2%, Building 11%, Survival 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for complex colony simulation, offering unparalleled depth in management, world-building, and unexpected events.

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 26.3% ★, City Builder 22.6%, Building 11.7%, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that challenges players to manage resources and population growth under harsh conditions.

Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

Why similar: Survival 65.6%, Online Co-Op 9.3%, Co-op 9.2%, Crafting 8.5%, Open World 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A premier co-op survival game that emphasizes base-building, exploration, and managing resources to survive against the odds.

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.2% ★, Crafting 18.6%, Building 17.8%, Open World 10.8%, Cute 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony sim that emphasizes managing a community through harsh seasonal changes and resource scarcity.

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 26.3% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 9.2%, Character Customization 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique blend of colony management and god-game mechanics with a focus on character relationships and community growth.

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 24.9% ★, City Builder 17.3%, Base Building 13.2%, Building 8.8%, Crafting 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A prehistoric colony-sim that emphasizes exploration, community growth, and the development of early technologies.

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 33% ★, Base Building 25.4%, Building 12.4%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on space exploration and automation, sharing the sci-fi base-building vibe and resource-management loop.

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Survival 38.6%, Open World 18.1%, Crafting 14.9%, Building 13.9%, Co-op 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: Features intense survival and base-building mechanics with a strong emphasis on co-op play and immersive, realistic systems.

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 25.4% ★, City Builder 24.6%, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 11.7%, Strategy 6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines city-building with survival in a post-apocalyptic world where you must manage resources and defend your colony.

Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 11%, Management 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing city-builder that emphasizes automation and efficient resource management for your colony.

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 29.8% ★, City Builder 17%, Base Building 16.9%, Survival 10.8%, Management 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic colony-sim with strong survival, base-building, and strategic management elements.

Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?

Why similar: City Builder 28.5%, Colony Sim 28% ★, Survival 14.7%, Base Building 8.9%, Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes survival city-builder that forces players to make difficult moral choices to keep their colony alive in a frozen wasteland.

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 36.4% ★, City Builder 24.7%, Building 11.7%, Survival 9.3%, Crafting 6%

Why You'll Like It: A charming voxel-based colony-sim with a focus on building, crafting, and defending your settlers.

Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Base Building 13%, Building 11.1%, Crafting 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on automation and base-building within a colony management framework, perfect for players who enjoy optimizing production.

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 39.4% ★, City Builder 30%, Survival 7.9%, Building 7.7%, Strategy 4%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval survival city-builder with detailed resource management and realistic environmental challenges.

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 24.1% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Building 12.7%, Crafting 12.1%, Management 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on community building and crafting in a survival-adjacent setting with a strong emphasis on social dynamics.

An open-world colony sim based on stories of the first men. Infinite possibilities await your very own Adam and Eve as they embark on a generation-spanning adventure. How will you shape their future?

Why similar: Colony Sim 34% ★, Base Building 19.4%, Building 8%, City Builder 7.2%, Survival 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox colony-sim with deep character progression and event systems that allow for highly customized gameplay.

Inspired by RimWorld and The Sims, Catizens is a colony management simulation game where you watch over unique cats with quirky personalities, as you help them build and grow their settlement while exploring new lands, facing off against wildlife and overcoming the challenges of each environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.5% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Building 9.5%, Base Building 9.5%, Survival 8%

Build, expand, and rule a growing space colony. Explore tech, trade, and multiplayer.

Why similar: Colony Sim 49.2% ★, City Builder 40%, Strategy 5.8%, Simulation 5%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward colony-sim with a focus on expansion, technology, and long-term base development.

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!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23% ★, Trading 17.3% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Base Building 11%, Building 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: An exploration-heavy colony-sim that tasks you with managing multiple settlements across different islands.

A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23% ★, City Builder 16.4%, Trading 15.5% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Building 9.3%

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: City Builder 28.1%, Colony Sim 25.1% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Management 8.2%, Building 6.1%

Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

Why similar: Base Building 17.6%, Colony Sim 16.3% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Online Co-Op 12.3%, Building 10.5%

Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 10.9%, Building 10.7%, Survival 10.4%

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 42.4% ★, City Builder 28.8%, Base Building 13.2%, Strategy 5.4%, Survival 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi city-builder that emphasizes planet-side survival and the management of a growing extraterrestrial colony.

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 44.7% ★, City Builder 22%, Base Building 14.3%, Survival 8.3%, Strategy 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A unique take on the city-builder genre where your colony is a floating platform that must be managed and expanded.

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 29.1% ★, Base Building 17.8%, City Builder 12.4%, Building 12.1%, Management 8.3%

Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.

Why similar: City Builder 22.1%, Survival 15.3%, Online Co-Op 14.3%, Crafting 13%, Building 10.6%

Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert? Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!

Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7% ★, City Builder 29.1%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 9.5%, Simulation 7.2%

Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.5% ★, City Builder 21.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 9.4%, Management 7.5%

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1% ★, Trading 18.8% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 13%, Building 9.9%

New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7% ★, City Builder 19.4%, Base Building 13.9%, Building 10.9%, Survival 10.3%

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.

Why similar: Colony Sim 41.4% ★, Base Building 17.3%, Building 8.4%, Survival 7.9%, Crafting 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 32.9% ★, City Builder 21.8%, Building 11.2%, Management 10.9%, Crafting 9.1%

Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3% ★, City Builder 20.3%, Base Building 13.7%, Survival 10.5%, Management 9.5%

Experience a city-building game, where the citizens are fully simulated and every decision you make impacts their lives. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age and beyond, watch your civilization evolve and progress under your guidance.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8% ★, Immersive Sim 13.3%, Building 10.1%, Crafting 8.9%, Exploration 6.5%

Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6% ★, City Builder 21.9%, Base Building 14.5%, Building 12.2%, Management 9.1%

Colonize Prologue is a combination of survival game and building strategy that takes place during the colonization period - the 17th century. It tells the story of a settlement in the new world and all the difficulties encountered by the early settlers.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6% ★, Trading 19.3% ★, City Builder 18.8%, Building 10.1%, Management 8.7%

Breathe easy and thrive in this cozy colony sim. Build a haven for castaways, manage resources, live your best life on the ocean. Lead your humble settlement into a high-tech society.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 10.5%, Crafting 10.4%

Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5% ★, City Builder 21.4%, Base Building 12.1%, Survival 9.8%, Building 9.8%

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 25.2% ★, City Builder 22.7%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 10.3%, Survival 8.9%

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 43.5% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Survival 12.9%, Management 10.7%, Strategy 5.9%

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 25.1% ★, City Builder 18%, Base Building 15%, Building 10.6%, Survival 9.2%

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 22.3% ★, Base Building 15%, Online Co-Op 11.2%, Crafting 11%, Building 10.1%

StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Online Co-Op 10.1%

A colorful but challenging blend of classic RTS and tower defense. Build, expand, research, and defend your alien colony as you race to construct a teleportation device and escape a dying star.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Management 6.3%, Exploration 6.1%

Summa Expeditionis is a colony sim and base building game set in ancient Roman Empire. Follow the career of a Roman soldier from Legionnaire to Centurion. Build and manage your camp, recruit more soldiers and face the barbarians for the glory of Rome.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7% ★, Base Building 14.1%, City Builder 13.2%, Building 9.8%, Crafting 9.4%

Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.

Why similar: City Builder 29.1%, Trading 18% ★, Management 12.4%, Building 11.7%, Base Building 10.3%

A procedurally-generated, open-world, first-person colony sim. Build colonies in an infinite world, alone or with friends via Steam or self-hosted multiplayer.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4% ★, City Builder 19.6%, Base Building 13.7%, Building 10.9%, Crafting 10.4%