60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, Strategy, Sandbox, Singleplayer.
Another Dead World is a simulation-driven game where the world lives on its own. NPCs trade resources, shape the economy, and react to events. The player enters a living system that can grow, collapse, or be left to die.
DuneHaven
Build your oasis town with up to 8 friends. Defend it from threats that emerge at night. Hunt down powerful bosses. Work the land, gather resources, and trade with travelling merchants. Explore distant lands and grow your town’s influence.
Wild West Simulator
Wild west simulator is a sandbox simulation game in the wild west hunt for pelts, dig for oil, manage the mine gather resources , and there is quests managing your colony entails a lot! you can also build your own settlement and develop your own colony.
Build your oasis town with up to 8 friends. Defend it from threats that emerge at night. Hunt down powerful bosses. Work the land, gather resources, and trade with travelling merchants. Explore distant lands and grow your town’s influence.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.2% ★, Sandbox 23.9%, Trading 11.1% ★, Top-Down 8.5%, Open World 6.7%
Wild west simulator is a sandbox simulation game in the wild west hunt for pelts, dig for oil, manage the mine gather resources , and there is quests managing your colony entails a lot! you can also build your own settlement and develop your own colony.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.4% ★, Western 29.4% ★, Sandbox 20.8%, Open World 5.8%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!
Why similar: Colony Sim 52.3% ★, Sandbox 14.4%, Strategy 14.1%, Survival 11.1%, Top-Down 4.4%
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 54.8% ★, Strategy 24.5%, Sandbox 11.1%, Survival 5.4%, 2D 2.5%
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 56.9% ★, Sandbox 14.5%, Strategy 14.2%, Survival 7%, Open World 5.3%
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 49.6% ★, Sandbox 20.3%, Strategy 17.8%, Survival 6.6%, Open World 4.1%
A medieval fantasy colony sim based on Dwarf Fortress and Rimworld, MediAevi features multiple playable races in a procedurally generated world. Make a sustainable colony and keep your colonists alive through raids and attacks. Research and Advance, to make better weapons, armors, spells, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 54.6% ★, Strategy 19.4%, Sandbox 13.5%, Top-Down 5.9%, 2D 4.7%
The Colony is a city building game where the player must manage their resources in order for the population to survive and thrive. Constructing buildings and assigning jobs to villagers, you can gather resources like wood, food, stone, tin, and copper and use them to grow your village.
Why similar: Colony Sim 75.8% ★, Strategy 24.2%
The rails are coming. Build, Trade, or break them. Connect East to West in a harsh frontier where every citizen has a name, a trait, and a breaking point. Harvest resources, refine goods, and persuade stubborn towns to let the tracks through. The West is untamed, and so are the people.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.5% ★, Western 26.4% ★, Sandbox 14.3%, Strategy 12%, Survival 7.3%
Build and Manage your city. Raise your island from a small village to a big kingdom!
Why similar: Colony Sim 75.9% ★, Strategy 12.8%, Sandbox 9.6%, Indie 1.7%
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 48.4% ★, Sandbox 24.3%, Strategy 16.3%, Survival 7.8%, Indie 1.7%
A real-time ant colony simulation game set in the hostile world of insects. Fight for resources, build underground networks, learn from the environment, harvest DNA from defeated foes, evolve new ant abilities, and guide hundreds of ants toward building a global SuperColony. Add to Wishlist now!
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.5% ★, Sandbox 19.2%, Strategy 18.7%, Survival 9.8%, Open World 7.5%
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 56.7% ★, Strategy 19.5%, Survival 10.8%, Sandbox 10%, Indie 2.1%
Become a Roman god! Don't be shy! Epic game that topped the charts on Big Fish Games and GameHouse!
Why similar: Colony Sim 74.9% ★, Strategy 25.1%
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 53.1% ★, Sandbox 20%, Strategy 13.3%, Survival 8.7%, Open World 3.6%
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.3% ★, Strategy 30.2%, Sandbox 24.3%, Top-Down 4.5%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Control a western mining town and build it up to become the largest mining operation in the race for finding gold.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.6% ★, Strategy 26.9%, Western 24.7% ★, Open World 6%, Indie 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 52.2% ★, Sandbox 16.4%, Strategy 11.9%, Survival 11.5%, Open World 6.8%
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 45% ★, Strategy 19%, Sandbox 19%, Survival 7.4%, Open World 6.5%
Villaging is a simple game of strategy where you reign on a kingdom and you need to manage your ressources and your inhabitant .But you will also get threat from other kingdom so you will need to make an army to fight against them .
Why similar: Colony Sim 56.1% ★, Strategy 35.1%, 2D 6%, Singleplayer 1.5%, Indie 1.3%
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 57.3% ★, Strategy 17.1%, Sandbox 12.2%, Survival 9.3%, Open World 2.1%
Realm keep is a turn based tactical RPG where you build and defend your settlement. You lead your colonists, plan battles, explore distant dungeons and destroy them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.2% ★, Sandbox 21.7%, Strategy 19.5%, Top-Down 7.1%, 2D 3.4%
Beware of Light is a «hard sci-fi» city-building game focused on narrative and survival. After an unexpected crash landing on a dead world, as the new Captain, you must manage colony infrastructure and manpower. Can you thrive under the scorching sun? Will this planet become your grave or salvation?
Why similar: Colony Sim 51.3% ★, Strategy 37.1%, Survival 11.6%
Settler's Domain is a settlement-building survival game with resource management and diplomacy elements. Build structures, recruit settlers, harvest resources, and deal with other settlements to expand your domain.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.8% ★, Sandbox 13.6%, Strategy 13.1%, Survival 9.8%, Top-Down 6.8%
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.9% ★, Sandbox 16.6%, Strategy 14.7%, Survival 9.9%, Top-Down 5.8%
"Once Upon a Time in the Colony" is a third-person game with simulation survival, action and shooting elements. Go to virtual amusement parks called "colony" in parallel time and space. Survive and develop, farm, explore and fight in various harsh environments. Write your own legendary story.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7% ★, Western 25.8% ★, Sandbox 14.8%, Trading 11.2% ★, Survival 7.7%
Experience the ultimate turn-based colony building game in Citizens: On Mars - Prologue! As the leader of a fledgling Martian settlement, your mission is to develop a thriving colony amidst the harsh and unforgiving environment of the Red Planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.9% ★, Strategy 29.2%, Sandbox 18.3%, Top-Down 7.1%, Singleplayer 0.5%
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 62.3% ★, Strategy 19%, Survival 7.4%, Open World 4.4%, Gore 3.9%
A Little Village or þorp Builder, which takes place on a 32x32 tile map. Use the resources available to keep your villagers warm, fed, and hydrated for as long as you can. When the little ice ages come, you must manage your resources wisely to prevent a very cold sad death of your villagers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 53.4% ★, Strategy 28.9%, Top-Down 10.3%, 2D 5.2%, Indie 1.3%
The Promised Land, a brave new world , the hole nation – all this lies in your hands! Become a true leader, a chosen one, a father of nation! Guide your colony to the victory of the modern superpower! We collected all the best that is in games of this genre, arched by exciting mini-games and carefully turned it into the deep and...
Why similar: Colony Sim 74.1% ★, Strategy 24%, Indie 1.3%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Lead a research team to explore and study a strange dimension while fending off the entities that inhabit the Zone. Manage your base and construct experiments and unique machines by harnessing the properties of multiple anomalies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.4% ★, Strategy 24.6%, Sandbox 19.9%, Top-Down 6.5%, Gore 4.8%
Build a medieval colony… with cats! Progress from a wooden club to a steel claymore, build a dynasty with inheritable traits, and defend your clowder from mice, rats, and dogs. Send brave squads to explore the world and remember: here, sharp claws and a fluffy tail rule.
Why similar: Colony Sim 49.3% ★, Strategy 18.4%, Sandbox 14.5%, Survival 9.1%, Open World 5.3%
A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night. Learn how to survive, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.4% ★, Strategy 37.7%, Survival 13.6%, Indie 4.4%
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 59.1% ★, Survival 12.6%, Sandbox 12.5%, Strategy 8.5%, 2D 2.9%
The Black Bahr is a sandbox colony simulation RPG blending ocean exploration, crew management, and dynamic faction politics. Freely chart your course as a pirate, merchant, or honorable captain, shaping your destiny across the open seas.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.5% ★, Sandbox 23.3%, Strategy 17.4%, Survival 10.8%, Open World 10.6%
Using your knowledge and expertise, make your way through the planet, scavenge its resources and plunder until you are the most powerful factory owner in the universe!
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.4% ★, Sandbox 21%, Strategy 16.3%, Top-Down 9.1%, Open World 7.8%
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 39.8% ★, Sandbox 20%, Trading 15.9% ★, Strategy 11.9%, Survival 8.6%
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 55.1% ★, Sandbox 15.9%, Strategy 11.9%, Survival 7.1%, Open World 6.8%
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 49% ★, Sandbox 17%, Strategy 12.7%, Survival 10.4%, Open World 5.8%
Menorca Talaiotica is a strategy game where you will face the same problems as the first inhabitants of the island of Menorca; obtain natural resources, water, shelter, food and survive the calamities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 60.4% ★, Strategy 38.6%, Singleplayer 1%
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 62.1% ★, Sandbox 15.5%, Strategy 13.3%, Survival 7.6%, Indie 1.4%
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 56.5% ★, Strategy 16.5%, Survival 11.2%, Sandbox 11%, Open World 3.5%
An SCP Facility Management game with strong visual stylings that allows you to run your own SCP Foundation Sites, capture anomalies, hire staff to contain and research them, and recontain them when they escape. Orchestrate multiple sites and guide your clandestine organization to success!
Why similar: Colony Sim 56.2% ★, Strategy 35.4%, 2D 5.9%, Indie 1.5%, Singleplayer 0.9%
Shipwrecked and abandoned in an unknown land. Build, expand, and even influence a medieval world where every decision shapes your rise. Establish yourself, repel threats, and guide your people's progress and destiny from above and on the ground in this relaxing single-player city builder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6% ★, Strategy 23.7%, Sandbox 20.3%, Trading 12% ★, Survival 11%
Steam & Steel — Railway Tycoon puts you at the helm of a dieselpunk railway empire. Manage stations, locomotives, and resources, then dive into real-time simulation with dynamic maps, evolving fleets, and strategic decisions that shape your network’s rise.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.4% ★, Strategy 26.1%, Sandbox 22.9%, Trading 8.3% ★, Indie 0.9%
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.
Why similar: Colony Sim 59.4% ★, Strategy 29.6%, Sandbox 8.9%, 2D 1.3%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Reignfall is a real-time strategy game with elements of city-building and third-person action. Build a city and defend your keep against waves of increasingly difficult enemies. Can you survive against the fallen horde?
Why similar: Colony Sim 72% ★, Strategy 16.8%, Gore 9.7%, Indie 1.5%
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 52.9% ★, Sandbox 24.3%, Survival 9.5%, Gore 6%, Top-Down 5.6%
With this modernized History Edition dive into the diversified mix of enthralling build-up matches and exciting real-time fights. Manifold landscapes await to be explored and populated. Includes the main game plus the two expansions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 71% ★, Strategy 29%
Survive in a post-apocalyptic world. Form a community, scavenge resources, build facilities, and defend yourself against a lawless world while joining a father's desperate journey to save his sick daughter.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.8% ★, Top-Down Shooter 14.2%, Survival 11.7%, Sandbox 11.2%, Top-Down 11%
Starfall Protocol is a Starship colony sim with RPG adventures in a galaxy with millions of explorable planets!🌌
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.2% ★, Sandbox 19.8%, Strategy 14.2%, Open World 8.5%, Top-Down 6.8%
Mistward is a survival city-builder set on a mysterious island enshrouded in a poisonous mist! Create light sources to keep the mist at bay, build houses and command humans to gather resources. Explore the island and find a way out!
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.4% ★, Sandbox 22%, Strategy 18.8%, Survival 6.7%, 2D 4.6%
Void Ascendancy is a UI-driven space empire simulation where you colonize planets, manage specialized worlds, and build interstellar trade networks across a procedurally generated star cluster.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.6% ★, Strategy 28.9%, Sandbox 21.2%, 2D 3.6%, Indie 1.2%
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 50.6% ★, Sandbox 15.6%, Strategy 12.4%, Survival 12.3%, Open World 5.6%
An open-world, base-building, adventure game with quirky humor and llamas. Explore the wasteland of Alaska smashing skeletons in your supped-up cab and trading veggies with the native rhino people. Do the bidding of a mysterious cube from space and unlock the secrets of the desert.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.3% ★, Top-Down Shooter 23.2%, Sandbox 19.6%, Top-Down 8.4%, Open World 6.4%
Quriocity is a sci-fi city builder game set on a bare alien planet very similar to Earth. Build and upgrade a wide variety of units to extract resources and provide services, such as maintenance, food production, education, entertainment and many more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44% ★, Sandbox 21.3%, Strategy 16.4%, Survival 9.8%, Top-Down 7.9%
Gateworlds is a colony sim about exploring and surviving a fantasy wilderness. Find your way in a world of floating islands, strange creatures, and fickle gods.
Why similar: Colony Sim 47.1% ★, Sandbox 20.1%, Strategy 12.3%, Survival 11%, Top-Down 6%
Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.2% ★, Sandbox 22.8%, Strategy 13.4%, Survival 8.6%, Top-Down 6.6%
