60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, Strategy, Simulation, Sandbox.
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.
Settlers of Pineshore
On the edge of a new continent, you are responsible for connecting the wild region of Pineshore and its settlers to the rest of the world. Hire workers, gather resources, defend your venture from unknown dangers, and keep building the railway!
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.
On the edge of a new continent, you are responsible for connecting the wild region of Pineshore and its settlers to the rest of the world. Hire workers, gather resources, defend your venture from unknown dangers, and keep building the railway!
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.7%, Strategy 27%, Western 14.3% ★, Open World 6.7%, Survival 5.5%
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 44.2%, Western 29% ★, Sandbox 20.2%, Open World 6%, 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 53.1%, Sandbox 14.2%, Strategy 13.7%, Survival 11.2%, Top-Down 4.3%
Take command of your first colony as the Orc Prince. Dig, Build and Expand your colony deeper underground.
Why similar: Colony Sim 55.5%, Strategy 24.2%, Sandbox 10.8%, Survival 5.5%, 2D 2.4%
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 57%, Sandbox 14.1%, Strategy 14%, Survival 7.1%, Open World 5.5%
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 46%, Sandbox 21.3%, Top-Down 8.5%, Trading 8.3%, Open World 7.9%
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 50.4%, Sandbox 19.6%, Strategy 17.5%, Survival 6.7%, Open World 4.2%
The Colony Experiment is a colony simulator where you lead a group of Joes trapped in The Scientist's experiment. Gather resources, build your colony, survive the challenges ahead, and uncover the Scientist's base to finally break free.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.5%, Strategy 27%, Sandbox 19.6%, Survival 8%, Indie 1.3%
In Project Ark, the land has become uninhabitable after the apocalypse. The sea has become the only habitable place. Transform your ship into a floating city. Build, produce, and collect resources, research technologies, take care of your health, and rescue survivors!
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.8%, Strategy 20.1%, Sandbox 18%, Top-Down 6%, Survival 5.1%
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 55.4%, Strategy 19.2%, Sandbox 13.1%, Top-Down 5.9%, 2D 4.6%
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 76.3%, Strategy 23.7%
Build and Manage your city. Raise your island from a small village to a big kingdom!
Why similar: Colony Sim 76.5%, Strategy 12.6%, Sandbox 9.2%, Indie 1.8%
在群雄割据的三国乱世中，从零开始建设村庄，发展势力、抵御敌军，最终统一天下。
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.8%, Strategy 23.7%, Sandbox 19.7%, Top-Down 6.8%, 2D 3.3%
A colony survival strategy game on a fungal exoplanet, crossing colony sim, base building and territory control. Survey the fog, claim the ground under it, raise an outpost, and hold the line as the bloom and its ferals close in.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.5%, Strategy 28.1%, Top-Down 10.2%, Survival 7.5%, 2D 5%
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 45%, Sandbox 18.5%, Strategy 18.4%, Survival 9.9%, Open World 7.8%
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 49.2%, Sandbox 23.5%, Strategy 16.1%, Survival 8%, Indie 1.8%
Malignus is a 2D dungeon colony sim and emergent story generator. Play as a boss monster and their underling minions and creatures, expanding your underground dominion, building traps, and defending your prisoners and treasures from invading adventurers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.1%, Strategy 19.3%, Sandbox 15%, Top-Down 6.6%, Survival 3.8%
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 56.4%, Strategy 18.8%, Survival 10.8%, Sandbox 9.5%, Indie 2.2%
Become a Roman god! Don't be shy! Epic game that topped the charts on Big Fish Games and GameHouse!
Why similar: Colony Sim 75.5%, Strategy 24.5%
Build a fantasy settlement, guide unique villagers, reshape a fully destructible world, and lead your people in real-time battles against monsters, raiders, and rival factions. Raise a homestead, a druid's grove, a wizard's spire, a necromancer's deep lair—or something only you can imagine.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.9%, Strategy 28.2%, Sandbox 22.4%, Singleplayer 0.5%
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 53.8%, Sandbox 19.3%, Strategy 13.1%, Survival 8.9%, Open World 3.8%
Explore alien planets with carefully designed ecosystems, weather, resources, dangers and unique phenomena. Hunt animals for food and collect resources to craft equipment and repair devices on your ship. Escape each unique planet and unlock crew members and new ships.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.2%, Sandbox 17.9%, Strategy 15.3%, Survival 11%, Open World 8.5%
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 52.8%, Sandbox 15.7%, Survival 11.7%, Strategy 11.6%, Open World 7%
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 41.2%, Strategy 26.5%, Western 24.3% ★, Open World 6.3%, Indie 1%
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 45.6%, Strategy 18.7%, Sandbox 18.3%, Survival 7.5%, Open World 6.8%
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 56.8%, Strategy 34.6%, 2D 5.8%, Indie 1.4%, Singleplayer 1.4%
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 51.8%, Strategy 36.5%, Survival 11.8%
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 57.8%, Strategy 16.8%, Sandbox 11.8%, Survival 9.5%, Open World 2.2%
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 62.6%, Strategy 18.6%, Survival 7.5%, Open World 4.5%, Gore 3.8%
A deep colony sim and city builder. Manage resources and production chains to build the railroad from East to West. Found towns, harvest and refine the goods that fuel the line, then persuade or outlast the settlements in your path. Every citizen has a name, a trait, and a breaking point.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2%, Western 19.6% ★, Sandbox 16.3%, Trading 12.1%, Strategy 11%
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 43.4%, Sandbox 16.1%, Strategy 14.4%, Survival 10.1%, Top-Down 5.7%
Wild West is a unique town-building simulator set in the Wild West. Your family completely controls the town of Tombstone. Sheriff Jeff keeps the peace, Mayor Norman builds the town, and businesswoman Rose runs the shops. Ensure the town’s prosperity and growth, and defend it against enemies.
Why similar: Western 40.6% ★, Colony Sim 39%, Strategy 20%, Singleplayer 0.3%
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 49.1%, Sandbox 21%, Strategy 19.3%, Top-Down 7.1%, 2D 3.3%
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 74.9%, Strategy 23.3%, Indie 1.3%, Singleplayer 0.6%
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 49.9%, Strategy 18.1%, Sandbox 14%, Survival 9.3%, Open World 5.5%
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 54.1%, Strategy 28.5%, Top-Down 10.2%, 2D 5.1%, Indie 1.4%
Manage and expand a colony of dwarves. Decide where to dig and how to build a settlement. Choose what items to craft and what skills to learn and master. Keep your dwarves alive and survive goblin attacks, famine, harsh winters and wild beasts.
Why similar: Colony Sim 52.2%, Strategy 21.9%, Sandbox 15.7%, Survival 9.5%, Singleplayer 0.6%
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 45.7%, Strategy 28.9%, Sandbox 17.8%, Top-Down 7%, Singleplayer 0.6%
Build systems, sustain life, and transform a barren moon into a living world. In this 2D survival-crafting RPG, preparation and infrastructure matter more than reflexes... because when the winter eclipse comes, only what you’ve built will keep you alive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.5%, Sandbox 23.1%, Survival 11%, Top-Down 8.6%, Open World 7.6%
"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 33.5%, Western 25.5% ★, Sandbox 14.4%, Trading 10.6%, Survival 8%
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 59.5%, Survival 12.8%, Sandbox 12.1%, Strategy 8.3%, 2D 2.8%
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 45.7%, Strategy 36.6%, Survival 13.4%, Indie 4.4%
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge the stars in a resource-management sim focused on base building and survival. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to thrive in a hostile galaxy. Fortify your temporary base and secure your haul for a clean escape before it’s too late.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3%, Sandbox 22.7%, Strategy 22%, Survival 12.3%, Open World 6.3%
Gridmax is a living board game of readable tiles, rules, and behaviors. Lost on a hostile alien world, gather, craft, and build to survive. Grow a team, expand your colony, explore the grid, and advance your technology as you search for a way home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 52.5%, Sandbox 22.9%, Strategy 16.7%, Top-Down 5%, 2D 2.5%
Build an autonomous colony on a living procedural planet. Gather resources, command robots, expand your power grid, and defend the teleporter from an ecosystem that reacts to every step of your growth. Activate the link—or lose everything.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.4%, Sandbox 19.6%, Strategy 14.3%, Top-Down 7.2%, Survival 6.1%
SeaColony is a survival colony-builder set on the open sea. Build and expand a floating colony, manage colonists, research technologies, and develop farming, fishing, production, and power systems. Trade with merchant ships and survive pirate raids, fires, and harsh weather as your colony grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.9%, Sandbox 17.8%, Strategy 15.6%, Survival 10.9%, Top-Down 6.9%
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 32%, Sandbox 22.5%, Strategy 17.1%, Open World 11.1%, Survival 11%
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 44.3%, Strategy 24.4%, Sandbox 19.4%, Top-Down 6.5%, Gore 4.6%
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 55.6%, Sandbox 15.3%, Strategy 11.7%, Survival 7.2%, Open World 7.1%
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 42.1%, Sandbox 20.4%, Strategy 16.1%, Top-Down 9%, Open World 8.1%
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 56.9%, Strategy 34.8%, 2D 5.8%, Indie 1.6%, Singleplayer 0.9%
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 49.5%, Sandbox 16.5%, Strategy 12.5%, Survival 10.6%, Open World 6%
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 62.6%, Sandbox 14.9%, Strategy 13%, Survival 7.8%, Indie 1.4%
A detailed zombie-survival colony sim where you create a settlement on an infested island. Guide your workers as they build walls, grow crops, dig trenches and plant their flag in the land. Help them to fight hordes, form families, and uncover old technologies. Write their story...
Why similar: Colony Sim 59.7%, Strategy 21.6%, Survival 11%, Top-Down 7.1%, Singleplayer 0.7%
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 57.1%, Strategy 16.1%, Survival 11.4%, Sandbox 10.5%, Open World 3.7%
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 61.1%, Strategy 38%, Singleplayer 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 40.7%, Sandbox 19.5%, Trading 15.1%, Strategy 11.8%, Survival 8.9%
Satus (Latin for beginning/sowing) is a voxel-based sand box colony management sim. Players will be tasked with overseeing their colony as they fight for survival while expanding their colony's influence, creating new outposts, and attracting new colonists in the process.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.1%, Sandbox 22.1%, Strategy 10.9%, Open World 10.4%, Survival 10.3%
