Games Like Ascent of Ashes

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: Base Building 23.6%, Colony Sim 23.5% ★, Survival 16.1%, Crafting 12.2%, Management 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A 3D colony-sim that focuses heavily on base defense, resource management, and surviving against alien threats.

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 29.9% ★, Base Building 17.2%, City Builder 10.8%, Survival 10.4%, Management 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive colony-sim that shares the deep management, emergent storytelling, and base-building complexity found in Ascent of Ashes.

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 29.9% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Survival 11.8%, City Builder 8.6%, Crafting 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on building a base and managing survivors in a demon-infested post-apocalyptic world, mirroring the combat and survival loop of the seed game.

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 23.1% ★, City Builder 14.5%, Base Building 13.6%, Building 9.7%, Management 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a detailed colony-sim experience where you manage a crew and build a base while navigating the dangers of space.

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 22% ★, City Builder 15.2%, Base Building 13.1%, Management 9.4%, Crafting 9%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that excels in vertical base building and managing survivor needs in a harsh, historical-fantasy setting.

A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.

Why similar: Sandbox 17.2%, Survival 16.2%, Base Building 14.3%, City Builder 13.1%, Building 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A brutal, open-world post-apocalyptic sandbox that emphasizes squad management, base building, and survival against overwhelming odds.

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 25.7% ★, City Builder 14.9%, Base Building 14.8%, Management 9.9%, Survival 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic colony-sim that emphasizes base construction, scavenging, and defending against raiders.

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 23.8% ★, City Builder 23.3%, Base Building 12%, Survival 11.4%, Strategy 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic colony-builder that focuses on managing a settlement while exploring a dangerous world map.

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 27.3%, Colony Sim 26.5% ★, Survival 14.5%, Building 8.6%, Base Building 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes post-apocalyptic city-builder that forces difficult moral choices and intense resource management to keep your society alive.

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 36.9%, Sandbox 18%, Crafting 15%, Building 13.7%, Isometric 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an incredibly deep survival simulation where base building and managing survivor needs are essential to surviving the apocalypse.

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: City Builder 20.3%, Base Building 20%, Colony Sim 18.6% ★, Management 9.5%, Survival 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to turn any real-world city into a base, focusing on scavenging and defending against zombie hordes in a post-apocalyptic setting.

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9% ★, City Builder 16.5%, Base Building 14.5%, Isometric 10.6%, Building 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines intricate base building with real-time tactical defense against waves of enemies in a dark, ruined world.

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 26.1% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 12%, Survival 10.1%, Building 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony-builder set in a post-apocalyptic world where you must manage resources and expand your settlement.

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 20.1% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 13.2%, Survival 8.6%, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder where you must manage resources and build a base to survive in a post-apocalyptic environment.

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 23.8% ★, City Builder 18.9%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 11.2%, Survival 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder set after a solar apocalypse, emphasizing resource management and societal growth.

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 16.6%, Survival 13.7%, Building 8.8%, Management 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management of a single bunker and its inhabitants, emphasizing resource scarcity and survival combat.

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 22.3% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 10.2%, Management 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: The ultimate simulation game that provides unparalleled depth in colony management and base-building mechanics.

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 24.8%, City Builder 15%, Strategy 12%, Survival 11.4%, Colony Sim 9.7% ★

Why You'll Like It: A post-apocalyptic strategy game that combines base building with resource management and survivor defense.

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 31% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Survival 11.1%, Building 10.4%, City Builder 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person colony-sim that focuses on building a base and defending it from nightly monster attacks.

Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Strategy RPG 13.2%, Base Building 12%, Building 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that features building and managing a flying city while exploring a vast world.

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 26.8% ★, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 11%, Sandbox 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A massive-scale colony-sim that balances city management with large-scale tactical combat.

From Glory To Goo is a Sci-Fi survival RTS set on an alien world. Serve as humanity's bulwark by establishing a colony and supporting your colonists still in orbit. But beware, for The Goo, a relentless and shape-shifting force approaches from all sides, even above and below.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.9% ★, City Builder 20.5%, Base Building 20.4%, Sandbox 10.2%, Survival 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A base-building RTS that emphasizes defending against massive swarms of enemies, similar to the tactical combat in the seed game.

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 30.5% ★, City Builder 21.2%, Base Building 16.3%, Survival 9.3%, Building 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: A space-themed colony-sim that requires careful management of resources and base layout to keep your colonists alive.

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 42% ★, City Builder 20.9%, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 8.1%, Strategy 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A unique survival colony-sim where you build a floating city and manage resources while navigating a flooded world.

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 22.9% ★, City Builder 14%, Base Building 13.9%, Real Time Tactics 9.6%, Building 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy-heavy colony-sim that emphasizes base building and tactical combat against zombie threats.

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 29.3% ★, Base Building 16.9%, Building 7.4%, Real Time Tactics 7.2%, Management 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox colony-sim that focuses on character development and managing a growing community.

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 38.3% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Survival 11.8%, Management 11.4%, Strategy 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi colony-sim that focuses on simulation depth, base building, and surviving in a hostile environment.

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 24.3% ★, City Builder 23.6%, Base Building 13%, Survival 11.7%, Building 9.5%

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 29.1%, Colony Sim 15% ★, Base Building 14%, Survival 13.7%, Strategy 7%

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 24.8% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Building 9.9%, Crafting 9.8%, City Builder 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on building and managing a base in a post-apocalyptic setting.

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 26.2% ★, Base Building 16.2%, Building 11.7%, City Builder 11.3%, Management 9%

Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30% ★, City Builder 13.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 11%, Crafting 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused colony-sim that tasks you with building a settlement and managing workers during the day and night.

Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.8% ★, Base Building 24.3%, Isometric 10.8%, Survival 8.8%, PvE 6.7%

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 25% ★, Base Building 16.1%, City Builder 14.6%, Building 9.2%, Sandbox 8.5%

Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.8% ★, City Builder 17.5%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 10%, Immersive Sim 9.4%

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 32.6% ★, City Builder 22.4%, Building 11.2%, Sandbox 9.1%, Survival 8.7%

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 27.2% ★, City Builder 21.6%, Management 13.1%, Base Building 11.6%, Survival 8.1%

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 20.7% ★, City Builder 13.3%, Base Building 12.1%, Immersive Sim 8.4%, Building 8.2%

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 33.5% ★, Base Building 26.2%, Survival 11.7%, City Builder 11.5%, Strategy 6.6%

Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1% ★, Base Building 18%, City Builder 15.4%, Survival 12.5%, Management 9.8%

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 24% ★, City Builder 20.9%, Building 11.5%, Management 9.6%, Survival 9.4%

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 18.2%, Real Time Tactics 15.4%, City Builder 15%, Building 13.3%, Sandbox 10.9%

The apocalyptic roguelike deckbuilder with squad sculpting and deep tactics. Recruit the right units and outmaneuver titanic foes on dangerous expeditions. Build up allies and resources in the feudal Vault-City. Can you survive all the perils that await the last bastion of humanity?

Why similar: Strategy 81.6%, Simulation 18.4%

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 26.2% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Base Building 16.2%, Sandbox 10%, Survival 10%

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 27% ★, City Builder 19.1%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 9.3%, Survival 9%

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 36.7% ★, Immersive Sim 16.6%, Base Building 13.5%, Isometric 12.7%, Strategy 10.8%

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 22.4% ★, City Builder 16.6%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 10.4%, Management 9.9%

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 36.6% ★, Management 13.6%, Sandbox 12.5%, Base Building 10.9%, Survival 10.7%

Wake to a brutal world bent on destroying your colony. Rebuild, Explore the Wastelands, and Gather scarce resources. Will you strike a deal with the ruthless Baba Yaga - or hack a rogue Cyber-Rat to turn it into an ally? A dark strategy-survival RPG with card-based tactical combat.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26% ★, Strategy RPG 17.8%, Party-Based RPG 12.7%, Survival 10.8%, Management 10%

Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world.

Why similar: Base Building 31.6%, Building 21.9%, Survival 18.9%, PvE 16.4%, Strategy 11.3%

Until We Die is a side-scrolling strategy game about defending your base where you have to run around as Ivan, assign tasks to people, and fight mutants in the post-apocalyptic subway!

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6% ★, Base Building 21.3%, Survival 16.7%, Management 12.1%, Building 10.9%

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% ★, City Builder 17.4%, Base Building 14.9%, Survival 9.1%, Building 8.7%

A dark fantasy colony sim - will your colony end the Dread Storm and redeem mankind, or will they harness the dark powers for themselves? Guide your villagers as they struggle to stay alive in a world overrun by the undead.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.6% ★, Base Building 17%, Crafting 13.6%, Building 10.4%, Management 9.5%

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 23% ★, City Builder 16.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Building 10.1%, Management 9.8%

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 24.5% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 12.1%, Building 11.6%, Survival 10.9%

Gord is a single-player adventure strategy. To survive, you must build, but to prevail, you must conquer the darkness beyond the gates. In this dark fantasy world, you must complete quests while managing a populace whose personal stories and well-being decide the fate of your tribe.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.1% ★, City Builder 22.9%, Survival 15.3%, Isometric 14.7%, Strategy 7.9%

Sphere – Flying Cities is a sci-fi citybuilder which combines strategy, simulation, and survival elements in an extraordinary and immersive scenario. Rebuild and protect a society in a unique and hostile environment. Pay the price for your decisions and be prepared to lose everything.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Survival 12%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 10.9%

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 24.3% ★, City Builder 14.7%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 10.6%, Management 9.7%

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 23.3% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Isometric 11.9%, Management 10.3%, Building 10.3%