60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Singleplayer, Simulation, Indie, Time Management.
Player's Log: I discovered a rigorous space station builder called Astrobase Command, where crew make narrative decisions using an emotional simulation tied to all aspects of the RPG
Wanderlust: Transsiberian
Board the Trans-Siberian railroad and travel 9,289 km from Moscow to Vladivostok. Clash with a vibrant culture as you meet people as strange to you as you are to them. Journey into a standalone Wanderlust adventure from the makers of The Witcher.
POSTERIOR
You are a space trader living inside a capsule in deep space. Supply passing starships, maintain balance in a weight-based physics system, and build your own space colony.
Board the Trans-Siberian railroad and travel 9,289 km from Moscow to Vladivostok. Clash with a vibrant culture as you meet people as strange to you as you are to them. Journey into a standalone Wanderlust adventure from the makers of The Witcher.
Why similar: Experimental 26.6% ★, Psychological 13.2%, Philosophical 12.8%, Nonlinear 12.4%, Emotional 11%
You are a space trader living inside a capsule in deep space. Supply passing starships, maintain balance in a weight-based physics system, and build your own space colony.
Why similar: Experimental 26.2% ★, Nonlinear 14.9%, Time Management 14.1%, Psychological 12.3%, Colony Sim 11.5%
The surface is gone. 11,581 survivors are crammed into an unfinished 10,000-capacity bunker. Balance 6 core resources, make critical choices on advisor reports, manage your workforce, and keep the shelter from collapsing.
Why similar: Text-Based 23.2%, Resource Management 19.7%, Simulation 9.4%, Colony Sim 9%, Psychological 8.8%
Free Agency is the life simulation where the agents gradually become self-aware and try to find meaning in their lives. Meanwhile, you have to keep them too busy to think about it.
Why similar: Life Sim 27.4%, Philosophical 18.9%, Time Management 18.9%, Psychological 17%, Management 10.7%
Get up? Or stay in your bed just a few more minutes? A peaceful, small-scale life sim. Go through your mornings and forge your fate with the consequences of your everyday choices.
Why similar: Time Management 19%, Nonlinear 17.5%, Life Sim 16.7%, Experimental 16.1% ★, Choices Matter 9.8%
Run your own Adventurer's Guild in this fantasy colony sim with a focus on dynamic storytelling. Recruit heroes to explore a ruined city, but keep an eye on those murder hobos. An unhappy hero could turn to arson, violence, and jaywalking.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, Base Building 19.4%, Procedural Generation 15.2%, Nonlinear 12.2%, Management 11.3%
Build an army, raid rival corporations, and defend your base while it keeps running without you. Research upgrades, arm your Titan, and dig into a moon that isn't as abandoned as it looks. Something was here first. Find out why it's gone.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, Text-Based 20.3%, Base Building 15.9%, Simulation 10.1%, Time Management 9.2%
My Music Label is a music management and simulation game where you take full control of your label. Discover young talents, manage legendary artists, and shape the evolution of the music industry. Every decision influences careers and the history of music.
Why similar: Time Management 22.5%, Life Sim 20.6%, Text-Based 16.8%, Simulation 10.9%, Management 10.5%
Experience the thrill of managing your own grocery store, from stocking shelves to handling customers, and transforming a small shop into a thriving supermarket. Control prices, Order goods, Hire Staff, Fight with Thieves and much more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30%, Life Sim 20%, Time Management 19.9%, Simulation 11.3%, Resource Management 7.7%
In the near future, human life is perfect. BORE DOME is a magical pill solution from the future that lets you experience moments of human imperfection and mediocrity. Equip your senses and get ready to confront all kinds of situations and unhinged characters.
Why similar: Experimental 32.7% ★, Time Management 17.1%, Psychological 15.7%, Life Sim 14.9%, Simulation 6.1%
Text-based 4X focused on turf war, victory conditions and resource management. Roots of Harmony is a strategy game where you have to lead your colony through puzzling challenges, while managing your doctrines and disciples. 100% gameplay, ASCII graphics only!
Why similar: Nonlinear 15.6%, Text-Based 14.4%, Procedural Generation 14%, Base Building 12.1%, Resource Management 12%
Every choice comes with loss. This is no power fantasy, but a ten-year reckoning with ambition, class, pride, and reality. Plan each week, face relentless comparison and locked paths, and find out what remains when you finally stop trying to become someone else.
Why similar: Life Sim 21.2%, Psychological 19.5%, Time Management 15.9%, Resource Management 15.5%, Text-Based 10.4%
The Tedium and You is an experimental first-person boredom simulator. Getting points is easy: just walk back and forth across a boring hallway. But that likely won't hold your interest. Explore the facility instead to find that the more you see, the less you know.
Why similar: Nonlinear 25.9%, Experimental 21.2% ★, Philosophical 15%, Procedural Generation 14.8%, Psychological 13.2%
Carve out and manage vast underground colonies! Build chambers, mine resources, and watch your settlement thrive. Assign specialized roles to your residents, then dig deeper to uncover ancient caves, precious resources, and mysterious tombs that unlock new possibilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.6%, Base Building 22.6%, Resource Management 11%, Management 10.9%, Exploration 7.2%
A game as beautiful and unpredictable as life. Navigate what fate throws at you and explore what a life well lived can mean in this minimalist roguelite role playing life simulation. Life is wild and then you die – a thousand times over.
Why similar: Life Sim 20.4%, Emotional 18%, Choices Matter 13%, Philosophical 11.1%, Text-Based 10%
Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, Base Building 19.8%, Procedural Generation 14.3%, Resource Management 12.6%, Sci-fi 7.5%
A deadline-driven roguelite management game set in ancient Egypt. Build impossible monuments under brutal deadlines. Push your workers to the limit, survive disasters and riots, and watch your civilization slowly transform into something far stranger.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5%, Time Management 15.8%, Base Building 14.4%, Management 11.8%, Procedural Generation 7.8%
Rebuild a shattered colony, send your survivors on missions to explore and find key resources, and discover the truth about what happened to your son. A story-driven post-apocalyptic strategy sim where every choice comes with a cost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7%, Base Building 15.9%, Time Management 14.6%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Resource Management 11.3%
Through an "accident" seafarers arrive on an island where they have to fight for their survival. Help them by building and managing a tree house for them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, Base Building 19.3%, Life Sim 17%, Resource Management 15.4%, Management 9.1%
Adopt Karin or Klaus in this dark, story-driven parenting game. Help your child cope with the effects of hatred and bullying. Balance resources to meet their needs. Based on the true stories of the Lebensborn children, you’ll make difficult choices that will impact your child’s life forever.
Why similar: Psychological 17.2%, Emotional 14.1%, Time Management 13.9%, Life Sim 11.2%, Choices Matter 11.2%
Struggle. Fall. Triumph. Hold on. A small yet grand journey across life. Simple interactions connect seemingly unrelated moments, from the microscopic to the cosmic.
Why similar: Experimental 42.4% ★, Philosophical 16.6%, Psychological 16.1%, Emotional 15.5%, Exploration 8.6%
A game that combines elements of strategy, colony simulation, base defense, exploration, and hidden object exploration. All in a roguelike style with meta-progression. Procedurally generated maps and endless replayability.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, Base Building 17.3%, Procedural Generation 15.1%, Resource Management 14.8%, Time Management 11.4%
Build a functional cozy village in the British countryside! Explore haunted mines, manage your village's production, and enjoy immersive hobbies! Will you start a cult, rule as a Lord or Lady, or guide your villagers as equals?
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.2%, Base Building 16.2%, Time Management 16.1%, Life Sim 15.5%, Procedural Generation 9.8%
Build a massive Ice Crawler powered by a nuclear power plant on a distant planet where you need to generate energy to survive and rescue other survivors. Your crawler base can accommodate dozens of survivors and have dozens of floors. Learn how to build a nuclear power plant to survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.1%, Base Building 26.9%, Resource Management 11.7%, Management 11.2%, Exploration 6.4%
"Survival Time" is a survival strategy game where you build shelters. You must plan your time, make tough choices, and work with your companions to survive in harsh environments.
Why similar: Time Management 21%, Base Building 16.9%, Text-Based 12.9%, Life Sim 12.7%, Emotional 9.1%
You're the only one on shift at the observatory. Monitor signals, fix system failures, handle multiple alerts as things begin to spiral out of control. Come for the absurd cows, stay for the soundtrack. Each shift lasts 15 minutes and is designed to complete in a single intense session (30-60min).
Why similar: Psychological 26.3%, Time Management 23.7%, Text-Based 13.4%, Simulation 11.2%, Procedural Generation 9.1%
Castaway Coalition: Experience an evolving survival simulation on a remote island. You're not just a player, you're part of a living ecosystem. Craft, build, bond & survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, Base Building 17%, Life Sim 14.9%, Procedural Generation 13.7%, Resource Management 10.9%
You’ve been given a chance to go back to 21. Build relationships, explore new paths, and pursue the passion you once buried. Beneath it all lies a deeper truth about the world that contains you. Or perhaps… that you contain.
Why similar: Nonlinear 24.1%, Philosophical 17.4%, Life Sim 15.6%, Choices Matter 14.2%, Emotional 10.2%
Plan a city and build a space fleet to escape a dying Earth before time runs out. You have 30 minutes to scavenge a post-apocalyptic environment to build infrastructure, grow crops, generate power, and assemble rockets to save as many people as you can.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.5%, Base Building 21%, Time Management 18.1%, Procedural Generation 10.3%, Management 10.1%
Sci-fi idle strategy in isometric view: build structures, gather resources, and trade with ships while exploring your plot of land cell by cell.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7%, Base Building 19.6%, Resource Management 13.5%, Procedural Generation 12%, Management 9.3%
"Why did it come to this?" That's what the protagonist asks, his body and mind worn to the breaking point. From there begins a journey of rediscovering the self he had long neglected. A small action at a time, he plods forward — slowly, haltingly — toward recovery.
Why similar: Psychological 25.1%, Life Sim 24.5%, Philosophical 17.1%, Choices Matter 13.5%, Text-Based 12.1%
Treetopians is a cozy colony simulator where players build vertical villages in the treetops and care for a growing community of villagers with unique needs and personalities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29%, Base Building 14.1%, Emotional 11.6%, Resource Management 11.2%, Procedural Generation 10.2%
Build a space station for 15 alien races! 👽 Inspect IDs, catch criminals, and manage a chaotic galactic hub. A vibrant mix of colony sim & document-checking action. Can you build the ultimate hotel?
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, Base Building 16.4%, Resource Management 15.7%, Life Sim 15.1%, Management 10.1%
Revive and terraform a dead alien planet in this sci-fi farming / life sim. Terraform the frozen wastes, grow rule-breaking mutant crops, team up with an alien AI to revive extinct alien creatures, and build a thriving colony of settlers to befriend and romance.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.2%, Life Sim 15.8%, Time Management 14.7%, Base Building 10.1%, Resource Management 9%
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 40.2%, Base Building 27.4%, Resource Management 15.4%, Management 7%, Sci-fi 3.4%
A cozy medieval inn-management sim. Build your inn, brew your ale, set your prices, and take care of your guests. Grow your reputation and business while balancing happy patrons and rising costs to turn a quiet roadside stop into a legendary landmark.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3%, Base Building 18.3%, Life Sim 15.2%, Time Management 14.4%, Management 11.2%
Develop a prestigious university of mages. Build rooms, train your students, fight orcs, slay the bureaucrats, manage your budget... a director's life is not a quiet one.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.9%, Base Building 19%, Nonlinear 14.7%, Management 9.9%, Choices Matter 9.6%
Fractal Evolution is a 2D space exploration RPG with life simulation elements inspired by Conway's Game of Life.
Why similar: Experimental 25.6% ★, Colony Sim 24.2%, Philosophical 13.4%, Procedural Generation 9.2%, Resource Management 8.3%
Three Interwoven tales ruminating on beginning and end and everything in-between.
Why similar: Experimental 56.6% ★, Philosophical 25.5%, RPG 16.4%, Singleplayer 1.5%
Manage a bunker. Protect survivors. Outsmart a rogue AI. Bunker 1024 is a first person survival management game where you craft tech, maintain critical systems, and deliver aid as time grows thin - all while Lumina 6.0 studies your patterns and actively works against your routines.
Why similar: Time Management 19.8%, Colony Sim 19.6%, Resource Management 14.9%, Emotional 14.1%, Choices Matter 10%
Experience a 'painfully human', 'psychological' narrative through dreams and allegory. Live in a flat. Buy things. Use things. Tire yourself out. Sleep. Dream. Wake up. Repeat. And maybe, just maybe, find a Bear in a Pit. What could be scarier than the Bear? Find out.
Why similar: Experimental 30.5% ★, Philosophical 22.6%, Psychological 22%, Life Sim 17.8%, 3D 3.3%
Commander! Manage your shelter with survivors in a abandoned nuclear power plant. Search resources to make different types of boxes, send expeditions, repair work areas, face enemies to defend your facilities, deploy drones and rc cars, prepare for special events and more. All in real-time.
Why similar: Time Management 23.9%, Life Sim 23%, Simulation 12.3%, Nonlinear 10%, Resource Management 8.7%
Mind Over Magic is a colony sim set at the site of a cursed magic school. Build and optimize your own magical academy, train powerful Mages, and master mighty relics in order to battle through the Underschool, a mysterious underground dungeon that holds the key to liberation from a deadly curse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24%, Nonlinear 17.3%, Base Building 15.5%, Procedural Generation 11.3%, Resource Management 9.6%
Be a plant in this cozy, narrative-driven plant survival simulation about nature, responsibility, and interconnected systems. You will grow procedurally over time, explore evolving environments, and shape a fragile ecosystem through meaningful choices.
Why similar: Nonlinear 17.2%, Procedural Generation 15.7%, Life Sim 14.9%, Resource Management 14.9%, Time Management 13.1%
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 38.1%, Base Building 26.2%, Procedural Generation 11.1%, Resource Management 8.7%, Management 8%
Take control of the SCP Foundation. For the general good, find, contain, and protect SCP objects. Develop your foundation and protect it from hostile organizations, in the last resort destroy them and capture SCP objects held there.
Why similar: Experimental 32.4% ★, Colony Sim 22.8%, Time Management 15.5%, Management 10.5%, Base Building 6.8%
The spirit of the space race lives on in this Mars based colony sim. Mine, craft and research in order to build up your initial lander into a self sustaining colony. Keep oxygen levels high and CO₂ levels low. Discover and grow a variety of plants to balance out colonist nutrition.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.1%, Base Building 23.6%, Resource Management 15%, Simulation 8.1%, Management 8.1%
Build a settlement. Survive the winter. In this procedural colony simulator, your villagers are your lifeline. Guide them through a harsh wilderness and expand a struggling camp into a massive, thriving colony island.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, Life Sim 16.6%, Time Management 15.8%, Resource Management 14.9%, Base Building 11.4%
Manage a scrapyard bot-fighting team on the Lunar Ring World and prove your worth in brutal, high-stakes arena matches. Build machines from scrap, hire a team of engineers and programmers to give you an advantage, and wreck your opponents as you rise the ranks. Wreck - Rebuild - Repeat 'til you win.
Why similar: Time Management 24.8%, Life Sim 24.7%, Resource Management 15.6%, Management 14%, Simulation 9.5%
In academia, every decision matters. In the exam hall, it's not just about catching cheaters, but making the right call. From student relationships to career choices, every step shapes your reputation and future. Write your own academic story and decide what reaching the top is worth.
Why similar: Time Management 23.3%, Life Sim 20.7%, Emotional 13.9%, Simulation 11.3%, Nonlinear 8.5%
Breadoria is a survival colony sim where tiny Breads gather, build, craft, and defend their home from hungry invaders. Take control of any Bread, or automate your colony as you plan its next expansion.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.1%, Base Building 23.7%, Management 10.7%, Resource Management 8.4%, Procedural Generation 8.4%
Dark Moon is a survival strategy game where in order to survive you must avoid the Sun’s scorching rays and embrace the darkness. Gather resources, upgrade your mobile base, make tough moral decisions, but most importantly - don’t go into the light!
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, Base Building 20.6%, Resource Management 14.1%, Management 11.8%, Choices Matter 10.3%
Waking up alone in a derelict terraforming facility on an unknown (and distinctly not terraformed) planet, it's up to you to find a way to survive, learn what happened to the people who lived here and why you were abandoned in this narrative-driven incremental game.
Why similar: Time Management 25.9%, Nonlinear 25.5%, Text-Based 21.7%, Exploration 8.3%, Sci-fi 8.1%
Explore the town of Porthaven and brew your way out of crippling debt. Build up your brewery from a run-down store front into a bustling large scale operation.
Why similar: Time Management 32.2%, Life Sim 23.5%, Base Building 23.5%, Management 7.7%, Resource Management 7.6%
Take on the challenge of managing these Little Renters and their needs. Keep them happy with the right decoration and set your rent prices to maximize profits! Stay alert as Thieves, Squatters, Fires, Sick Renters and Broken Decorations can cause you to Fail!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1%, Time Management 23.1%, Life Sim 14.6%, Management 9.9%, Choices Matter 8.4%
Can you heal a mind while racing against time? Psychologist Life is a strategic simulation game where you experience the life of a psychologist. Carefully plan your appointments, use your knowledge to treat patients, and prove your time management skills.
Why similar: Psychological 25.3%, Life Sim 23.1%, Text-Based 12.9%, Choices Matter 12.7%, Simulation 12.2%
Build your own street food business! Cook delicious meals, serve hungry customers, manage ingredients, unlock new recipes, and protect your reputation as you transform a small local food stall into a legendary destination.
Why similar: Life Sim 27.8%, Simulation 15.4%, Time Management 14.2%, Resource Management 12.8%, Management 11.1%
An incremental colony sim set on a generation starship. Scavenge the stars and recycle everything possible to survive the end of the universe.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.9%, Base Building 17.8%, Resource Management 10.5%, Text-Based 9.2%, Simulation 9.1%
Ishmael is a short multimedia-enhanced hypertext story about perpetual cycles of displacement and violence as seen through the lens of a child. Takes about 15 minutes to read/play through.
Why similar: Experimental 28.5% ★, Philosophical 16.7%, Text-Based 15%, Time Management 13.7%, Emotional 13.5%
Type2 is a space-based city builder where you try to run a mining business on the moon. Use your management skills to maintain a colony, expand your company, and of course, make money
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.8%, Base Building 22.7%, Time Management 12%, Resource Management 10.9%, Simulation 8.1%
