Games Like After the Collapse

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 25.9%, Base Building 14.6%, Moddable 13% ★, Survival 8.6%, City Builder 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is the definitive colony simulator that mirrors the deep management, procedural storytelling, and survival mechanics found in After the Collapse.

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 26.7%, Base Building 14.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%, Survival 10.2%, City Builder 7%

Why You'll Like It: It directly captures the post-apocalyptic survival theme with a focus on base building and tactical combat against supernatural threats.

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 19.7%, Moddable 13.9% ★, City Builder 12.4%, Base Building 11.5%, Management 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This colony sim features complex vertical building mechanics that echo the multi-layered base construction of the seed game.

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 23.9%, City Builder 21.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Base Building 11.7%, Survival 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on managing a post-apocalyptic colony while exploring a dangerous world for resources.

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 24.6%, Base Building 24.4%, Survival 16.1%, Crafting 9.4%, Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This 3D survival colony sim offers high-fidelity base building and intense management challenges against a hostile environment.

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: Colony Sim 24.5%, City Builder 23.2%, Survival 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%, Base Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a masterclass in post-apocalyptic survival management where every decision impacts the survival of your colony.

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Why similar: City Builder 24.6%, Colony Sim 13.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.6%, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated post-apocalyptic city-builder that emphasizes survival against environmental hazards and resource scarcity.

Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.3%, Base Building 12.7%, City Builder 11.4%, Management 8.5%, Sandbox 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A procedural colony sim with a distinct aesthetic that focuses on building and managing a settlement in a dangerous world.

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 25.7%, City Builder 15.1%, Base Building 14.9%, Survival 9.8%, Management 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: This colony sim emphasizes post-apocalyptic survival and combat, making it a strong thematic match for After the Collapse.

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 25%, City Builder 16.8%, Moddable 15.6% ★, Base Building 13%, Sandbox 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: It offers massive-scale colony management and complex simulation mechanics for players who enjoy deep strategy.

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%, City Builder 16.2%, Base Building 14.7%, Management 10%, Survival 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: As the foundational game for the colony-sim genre, it provides unparalleled depth in procedural generation and simulation.

After a nuclear war life on the surface became impossible. A 300m thick radioactive fog covered the Earth. We are looking for bold active people to manage the process of restoring life on Earth. Join!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, City Builder 19.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Management 9.3%, Sandbox 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This city-builder tasks you with building settlements on high platforms to survive a post-apocalyptic Earth.

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 22.3%, City Builder 16.3%, Base Building 12.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Survival 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder set in a world recovering from a cataclysmic event.

A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30%, Base Building 16.4%, Post-apocalyptic 14.9%, Survival 13.2%, Resource Management 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the gritty reality of managing a small group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic shelter.

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 31.6%, City Builder 20%, Base Building 16.6%, Survival 9.3%, Management 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game challenges you to manage a colony in a hostile environment where resource management is key to survival.

The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.

Why similar: Base Building 23.2%, Post-apocalyptic 15.2%, City Builder 13.5%, Survival 10.3%, Strategy 10%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the core loop of post-apocalyptic base building and resource management to keep your survivors alive.

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 26%, City Builder 23.1%, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 12%, Resource Management 7%

Why You'll Like It: It combines colony management with survival mechanics in a harsh, space-faring post-apocalyptic setting.

Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.6%, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 14%, Survival 8.9%, Sandbox 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This survival city-builder requires you to manage atmospheric conditions and base infrastructure to keep your colony alive.

A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival. Rebuild your underground facility, manage colonists and robots, and uncover the mysteries of an alien world light-years from Earth. Dig deep, expand across the surface, and shape your new home.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, Base Building 16.1%, Management 11.5%, Survival 11%, Procedural Generation 10%

Why You'll Like It: It features sci-fi colony management with a heavy emphasis on underground exploration and base expansion.

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 22.7%, City Builder 14.4%, Base Building 12.4%, Moddable 11.8% ★, Sandbox 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: This colony sim incorporates RPG-like character interactions and deep management systems to build your kingdom.

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 23.1%, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: It adds a unique twist to the colony-sim genre by focusing on managing both human survivors and cured zombies.

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 24.7%, City Builder 15.7%, Base Building 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%, Survival 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A refined sequel that expands on the post-apocalyptic colony-building experience with improved mechanics.

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 50.7%, Sandbox 19.5%, Crafting 17.7%, Simulation 6.4%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: A deeply detailed survival colony sim that focuses on the daily struggles and long-term development of your people.

Ecopunk is a survival and colony management simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Balance survival, resource management, and hope as you guide your colony through the ruins of civilization.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.8%, Post-apocalyptic 12.4%, Management 10.9%, Sandbox 10.8%, Base Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends post-apocalyptic management with sandbox elements to create a unique survival experience.

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 38.5%, Base Building 12%, Survival 11.5%, Management 10.6%, Strategy 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi colony sim that emphasizes survival and complex systems management in a hostile alien environment.

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 23%, Base Building 13.4%, City Builder 12.9%, Management 8.7%, Survival 8.6%

Build your own city in a post-apocalyptic future. Scavenge and fight for resources, everything counts! Restore civilization on the ashes of the fallen world! Explore wastelands to gather resources, protect and take care of your people! Fight off raiders, wild tribesman and natural disasters.

Why similar: Base Building 20.9%, Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, City Builder 16%, Sandbox 12.7%, Management 9%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the construction and management of a settlement in a ruined world, emphasizing resource gathering.

The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.8%, Moddable 14.7% ★, Base Building 12.8%, City Builder 10.5%, Management 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-building game that tasks you with managing a settlement on floating islands in space.

Build massive ocean cities and lead your people to prosperity in this post-apocalyptic survival colony sim. Featuring a physics-based 3D construction system, complex resource management, exploration, difficult political decisions, supply chains, and a robust sandbox mode.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, Base Building 15.1%, City Builder 15%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Sandbox 8.4%

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 24.7%, Base Building 15.8%, City Builder 13.2%, Sandbox 8.4%, Management 7.7%

Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, City Builder 15%, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines survival and resource management in a post-apocalyptic setting with a focus on colony expansion.

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 33.5%, City Builder 25.2%, Base Building 14%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, Crafting 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward colony management game that focuses on building and expanding your settlement.

After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, Base Building 14.5%, City Builder 13.5%, Sandbox 8.5%, Survival 8.5%

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 21.9%, Moddable 12.7% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 8.2%, Sandbox 7.3%

Become the hive mind of a robot ant colony in Microtopia! Use pheromone trails to create, automate and optimize supply chains for your ants to follow. Collect resources, produce goods, feed your queen, grow your colony and fly out to expand the species!

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.8%, City Builder 12.4%, Moddable 11.8% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Procedural Generation 8.1%

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 28.3%, City Builder 22.6%, Survival 10.7%, Management 10.7%, Base Building 8.7%

Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!

Why similar: Base Building 19.3%, City Builder 18.1%, Colony Sim 17.9%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Management 8.6%

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 38.4%, City Builder 24%, Base Building 11.9%, Strategy 6.1%, Sci-fi 5%

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 27.7%, Base Building 13.4%, City Builder 9.7%, Survival 8.9%, Management 8.9%

Can you rebuild civilization after a zombie apocalypse? From the creator of Plague Inc. comes a unique blend of strategic simulation, survival city builder and ‘mini 4X’. Build post-apocalyptic settlements, harvest resources and shape society as you lead humanity out of the darkness.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7%, City Builder 18.6%, Base Building 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, Management 8.1%

Humans are long gone. In a world struck by droughts and toxic waste, will your lumberpunk beavers do any better? A sandbox city-building game featuring ingenious animals, vertical architecture, water physics, and terraforming. Contains high amounts of wood.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 12.5%, Management 8.7%, Sandbox 8.4%

Create a sprawling industrial city. Compete with other rival corporations on Titan for resources, territory, and power. Seek victory via technology, influence, warfare, or the wealth extracted from your citizens. Stake your claim to the Industries of Titan in this innovative sim/strategy game!

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1%, City Builder 20.4%, Base Building 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12.5%, Resource Management 7.6%

Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, City Builder 20%, Base Building 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9%, Management 8.6%

The Wandering Village is a city-building simulation game on the back of a giant, wandering creature. Build your settlement and form a symbiotic relationship with the colossus. Will you survive together in this hostile, yet beautiful post-apocalyptic world, contaminated by poisonous plants?

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3%, City Builder 17.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Management 10.8%, Base Building 10.2%

Discover a post-apocalyptic world Collect resources and manage people Build your colony on the remains of an oil tanker Prepare supplies and vehicles for a dangerous expedition. Complete challenging tasks from the council of elders

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.9%, Base Building 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Strategy 10.7%, Management 6.4%

Sail, scavenge, and rescue survivors in a vibrant floating city-builder. Captain your drifters across the endless garbage sea to uncover soaked ruins, rusting factories, and stories from the old world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.8%, City Builder 15.4%, Base Building 14.5%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%, Sandbox 9%

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 35.4%, City Builder 15.6%, Base Building 14.8%, Survival 6.9%, Sandbox 6.5%

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 34%, Base Building 26.4%, Survival 11.5%, City Builder 10.7%, Strategy 6%

This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3%, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 14.8%, Survival 8.9%, Management 7%

You've been elected as the new Bunker Warden! Now you must take control over a group of fellow bunker residents and try to make them last until the surface becomes habitable.

Why similar: Base Building 22%, Survival 17.5%, Sandbox 13.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.1%, Management 9.7%

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 39.4%, Base Building 16.7%, Survival 7.7%, Sandbox 7.5%, Moddable 6.6% ★

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 26.2%, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 12.6%, Moddable 10.8% ★, Management 9.5%

Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.9%, City Builder 16.8%, Base Building 14.6%, Management 9%, Procedural Generation 8.7%

A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.7%, City Builder 17.2%, Base Building 17%, Survival 10.9%, Management 9.2%

Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6%, City Builder 17.1%, Base Building 16.1%, Management 11%, Sandbox 9.9%

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 40.7%, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 13%, Survival 7.6%, Post-apocalyptic 7.2%

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 32%, Base Building 17.2%, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 11.7%, Management 11.1%

A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.

Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9%, Moddable 14.6% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 12.8%, Management 8.6%

Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32%, Base Building 18.5%, Management 12.3%, Crafting 10%, Procedural Generation 9.1%