60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Sandbox, Singleplayer, Colony Sim.
Baugarten is a new kind of empire-builder. Baugarten plays like a traditional empire builder - but those interested can push the limit by leveraging their math and science skills to optimise everything further and get ahead faster.
Endless Vine
Crash-landed in an endless jungle, you must rescue survivors, build a steam-powered colony, and construct an escape vehicle before the wilderness claims you. Endless Vine is a steampunk survival colony builder where every decision shapes your fight for survival.
SuperColony
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!
Crash-landed in an endless jungle, you must rescue survivors, build a steam-powered colony, and construct an escape vehicle before the wilderness claims you. Endless Vine is a steampunk survival colony builder where every decision shapes your fight for survival.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, Steampunk 20.7% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Nature 9.6%, Sandbox 8.7%
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 30.2%, Base Building 13%, Sandbox 12.5%, Open World 10.4%, Nature 9.4%
A toy ecosystem with fully simulated genetics and evolution. Will you tinker with DNA or sit back, relax, and see if life finds a way?
Why similar: Science 23%, Colony Sim 22.6%, Education 14.1%, Sandbox 10.8%, Nature 9.8%
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 20.4%, Base Building 16.3%, Resource Management 16.3%, Sandbox 14.4%, Survival 10.4%
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 37.6%, Base Building 16.5%, Resource Management 16%, Survival 10.9%, Sandbox 7.6%
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 26.8%, Science 21.2%, Sandbox 13%, Simulation 7.3%, Base Building 6.8%
This is a serious game. Made for educational purposes. It was made in order to enable students to understand the high school chemistry curriculum and to provide equality of opportunity.
Why similar: Science 34.7%, Education 24.2%, Sandbox 15.3%, Simulation 11.9%, Crafting 7.8%
An evolution simulation game. Take control of your species in the environment and edit your species as a whole. Compete with other evolving species for resources on an alien planet.
Why similar: Science 35.3%, Education 17%, Sandbox 14.5%, Nature 11.7%, Simulation 8.2%
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 35.6%, Base Building 15.8%, Sandbox 9.8%, Resource Management 9%, Open World 9%
Grow a small colony into a vast, world-spanning civilization. Play solo or with friends as you gather resources, build cities, manage colonist needs, explore uncharted lands, establish logistics, raise armies, forge alliances, and wage wars—all in a living world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 12.1%, Resource Management 10.5%, Open World 10.2%
231 real materials. 352 accurate recipes. Build a Hyperdrive Engine using actual chemistry. Your factory grows. Your efficiency improves. Someone notices. Every decision is logged. Welcome, Director.
Why similar: Science 33.7%, Colony Sim 18.9%, Resource Management 11.9%, Education 11.4%, Simulation 10.8%
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 43.7%, Base Building 14.6%, Sandbox 10.8%, Open World 8.4%, Survival 7.4%
Join Aggi and dive into a world that lies just out of sight. Customize your own cell and see it thrive in a vibrant ecosystem. Discover a wide variety of organisms like you've never seen before. And learn real science in a playful and relaxed environment.
Why similar: Science 48.7%, Education 23%, Sandbox 13.9%, Simulation 9.8%, Character Customization 4.3%
Power Network Tycoon is a power grid simulation and strategy game where you build and maintain a high-voltage power network. Build power infrastructure, monitor resources, research upgrades, adapt to environmental challenges, keep up with energy demands and protect your island community!
Why similar: Science 30.3%, Colony Sim 21.9%, Resource Management 15.8%, Education 12.3%, Simulation 6.6%
Polylithic is a survival game unlike any other, set in the most pivotal moment in mankind's history: the Stone Age. Experience life as a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer, settle down as a Neolithic farmer, form tribes in co-op multiplayer, or go at it alone in a world where we're not yet apex predators.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, Resource Management 13.3%, Open World 12.6%, Base Building 12.2%, Sandbox 12.2%
Manipulate climate, add plants and evolve creatures in this planet and life sandbox simulation game. From cells to civilizations, spread life throughout the whole planet. Or just enjoy watching your creation burn!
Why similar: Science 29.2%, Colony Sim 20%, Sandbox 13.1%, Nature 11.6%, Resource Management 10.4%
Collect, raise and breed an army of beetles to rise up and lay claim to the abandoned lot! The game features a complex genetics simulation and real-time tactics missions with a full campaign.
Why similar: Science 25.2%, Colony Sim 23.2%, Resource Management 10.6%, Education 10.3%, Nature 10.2%
Strategy game about genes and animal species. Evolve, reproduce, expand to new territories, survive, and fight to achieve various goals like biodiversity or dominance in the ecosystem.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.8%, Science 20.6%, Education 12.2%, Nature 11.5%, Sandbox 11%
Vilset is a strategic simulator based on the principle of survival of people, who turned out to be beyond the limits of their civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Resource Management 12.3%, Sandbox 10.9%, Survival 10%
Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.
Why similar: Science 20.5%, Education 11.1%, Sandbox 10.8%, Resource Management 10.4%, Nature 9.8%
Survive and thrive in a pixel art survival RPG set in the Alaskan wilderness. Trap, fish, forage, and build a village from scratch. Face shifting seasons, craft to endure the cold, and live in harmony with nature in a world where every choice matters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.6%, Resource Management 16.7%, Nature 10.2%, Survival 9.9%, Crafting 9.8%
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 33.7%, Base Building 14.3%, Survival 11.1%, Sandbox 10%, Resource Management 9.8%
In a collapsing world, safety is a memory. Guide a small group of survivors through the daily struggle of a bleak reality. Manage your shelter, craft essentials, and make soul-crushing choices. In Never Secure, winning isn't the goal—lasting one more day is.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7%, Resource Management 18.3%, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 12.3%, Simulation 10.2%
Rise through the ages. In Profectus you start with nothing but a world to explore. Your goal is to use what you are given to the fullest extent and work your way up from the stone age into space.
Why similar: Base Building 17.3%, Sandbox 17.1%, Simulation 15.9%, Open World 15%, Crafting 14.5%
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 24.9%, Resource Management 13.5%, Base Building 11.2%, Sandbox 10.7%, Open World 10.4%
Life Below is a refreshing twist on the city-building genre, set beneath the waves. Shape thriving coral reefs, revive collapsing ecosystems, and grow a living seascape in a heartfelt narrative by Rhianna Pratchett. You are the ocean's final hope.
Why similar: Science 23.8%, Colony Sim 20.3%, Resource Management 12.6%, Nature 11.8%, Base Building 9.4%
Adventure in a world where every pixel is physically and chemically simulated! In this ever-evolving sandbox, creativity meets chaos, and the only limit is your imagination!
Why similar: Science 20.4%, Open World 20.2%, Sandbox 18.8%, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 11.8%
A deep sea adventure for 1-6 players set far from the surface in an alien sea. Fight, befriend, and study your environment to unlock specialised mutations and tailor ecosystems in which you thrive. Spread Light beneath the Twilight Zone!
Why similar: Science 26.5%, Colony Sim 21.1%, Sandbox 13.1%, Nature 10.3%, Education 9.9%
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 36.5%, Sandbox 16.7%, Simulation 14.6%, Resource Management 11.4%, Base Building 10.5%
Terra Taker is an open-world survival crafting game where you build megastructures to terraform a fantasy planet. Gather resources, build automated bases, and transform floating islands, tornadoes, snowfields, lava zones, and lightning-scorched lands into a new paradise for humanity.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.1%, Resource Management 13.4%, Base Building 12.8%, Sandbox 11.8%, Open World 10.2%
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 31.8%, Sandbox 12.9%, Resource Management 11.2%, Base Building 11.1%, Survival 10.1%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.4%, Resource Management 15%, Sandbox 12.4%, Open World 12.1%, Base Building 11.3%
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 36.9%, Base Building 15%, Sandbox 11.1%, Simulation 10.5%, Survival 9%
Compact Colonies is a survival base-builder with roguelike elements, where every tile counts. Manage scarce resources, grow a tiny settlement, and keep your people fed, faithful, and defended in a finite world full of strategic trade-offs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.2%, Resource Management 18.9%, Nature 10.3%, Survival 10%, Base Building 7.6%
Be the architect of your own universe with Spore, an exciting single-player adventure. From Single Cell to Galactic God, evolve your creature in a universe of your own creations.
Why similar: Science 28%, Colony Sim 25.5%, Sandbox 12.8%, Open World 12.5%, Resource Management 9.6%
Survive in the skies of Venus with your floating colony as you balance buoyancy, mass, and altitude. Launch balloons and probes to explore the planet while harvesting resources from the atmosphere. Build up your colony and thrive in a simulation based on real science. Venus awaits.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.2%, Science 20.5%, Resource Management 13.3%, Base Building 10.8%, Simulation 8.2%
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: Science 25.6%, Colony Sim 24.2%, Resource Management 13.9%, Base Building 11%, Sandbox 10.6%
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 26.3%, Resource Management 15.9%, Base Building 13.4%, Sandbox 12.7%, Survival 9.3%
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 43.7%, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 10.3%, Resource Management 9%, Survival 7.2%
A sandbox simulation where you manage oxygen, pressure, heat but also the mental and physical wellbeing of your crew. Take command of ships, scavenge, build, craft, survive the harshness of space in an emergent story where the world does not care about you.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.3%, Base Building 14.5%, Open World 12%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 7.8%
SeaColony is a base-building survival game set in the endless open sea. Build and expand a floating outpost, manage survivors, and set up production chains to keep your colony alive. Farm the ocean and trade with merchant ships to survive and grow in the harsh deep.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, Resource Management 15.7%, Base Building 13.5%, Sandbox 12.7%, Crafting 9%
Build a living kingdom where villagers work and survive on their own. Assign roles, keep your people fed, automate your systems, and defend against growing threats. Your kingdom lives or falls by your decisions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30%, Open World 16.7%, Resource Management 15.8%, Survival 10.7%, Base Building 9.4%
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 31.5%, Base Building 13.9%, Resource Management 13.2%, Sandbox 11.7%, Survival 9.8%
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 23.1%, Science 21.7%, Sandbox 10.4%, Nature 10%, Resource Management 9.7%
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 31.2%, Resource Management 15.3%, Science 14.9%, Base Building 14.1%, Survival 9.1%
Take control of a colony made of ant-like creatures and develop it. Learn how to use your environment, re-discover ancient technology and grow even more! The sky is the limit... (or is it?)
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, Sandbox 15.4%, Simulation 12.7%, Nature 10.8%, Steampunk 8.1% ★
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 37.3%, Sandbox 16.1%, Resource Management 12.6%, Survival 9.1%, Base Building 8.5%
In the great outdoors, climate change, aggressive animals, hunger, and thirst all pose challenges to survival. Your mission is to acquire key assets on the island and return safely. Gather resources from the wild, process them, and evolve to become even more advanced.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3%, Nature 17.8%, Survival 13.9%, Base Building 9.2%, Open World 8.7%
A procedurally-generated, open-world, first-person colony sim. Build colonies in an infinite world, alone or with friends via Steam or self-hosted multiplayer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, Sandbox 13.2%, Open World 12.8%, Resource Management 11.2%, Base Building 9.7%
Stonedeep is an 2.5D underground city builder. Dwarfs gather resources, build and fend off monsters. Colonies can specialize in culture, production, military and trading. At start, dwarfs need drinks and rest. With a higher civilization level, they will increase their needs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1%, Resource Management 16%, Base Building 14%, Sandbox 10.8%, Open World 10.1%
Gridworld is an artificial life and evolution simulator. Watch creatures evolve through natural selection as they learn to find food, avoid danger, and compete with other creatures for survival.
Why similar: Science 28.9%, Colony Sim 22.8%, Sandbox 12.6%, Education 11.3%, Nature 8.2%
To survive, you must guide your species through a constantly changing world. Compete with strange creatures for food and territory, and find your niche through careful evolutionary choices. The real question is not if you can survive, but for how long.
Why similar: Science 28%, Open World 14.1%, Sandbox 13.8%, Nature 12.8%, Survival 10.6%
Strata is a scientifically inspired astro-planetary sandbox where you influence the formation and evolution of entire worlds — your worlds. Discover, gather, and build on the surfaces of diverse planets, explore them in depth, and manage your systems beyond the orbital levels.
Why similar: Science 28.1%, Sandbox 16.5%, Nature 12.2%, Base Building 9.1%, Exploration 8.6%
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 39.5%, Base Building 15.4%, Sandbox 11.9%, Survival 11.7%, Open World 10.4%
Set on small procedurally generated planets, PoliPlanet is a unique first-person city building game. Discover new planets, gather resources, craft, explore, and build.
Why similar: Resource Management 17.6%, Colony Sim 14.4%, Base Building 14.1%, Open World 12.8%, Sandbox 12.2%
Explore dangerous islands, build and defend your base, sail the seas, and raid rival crews in this open-world pirate survival game.
Why similar: Open World 14.8%, Base Building 13.9%, Sandbox 13.4%, Resource Management 12.7%, Crafting 10.5%
Survive as a crow through lands bound to cycles of warmth and frost. Endure hunger, thirst, and fatigue while paying attention to predators. Find allies among other animals, share resources, and decide when to leave before survival grows harsher.
Why similar: Nature 14.7%, Resource Management 13.8%, Science 12.6%, Education 11.5%, Open World 11.2%
Ratopia is a new game that has combined elements of both strategic survival and city building. With plenty of content available, and more planned, enjoy a vast world to adventure and populate with citizens! Build your own economical system to sustain your ideal city of Ratopia.
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.1%, Base Building 13.5%, Resource Management 13%, Sandbox 10.7%, Open World 9.9%
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.4%, Science 20.5%, Resource Management 12.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Sandbox 11%
Island survival RTS, with mysteries behind every corner. Assign your pawns to gather, craft, fight, study, and do other errands for your kingdom. Every randomly generated island holds unique secrets to be uncovered. As the Duke of Pawnholm, will you lead your pawns to prosperity ...or to calamity?
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2%, Sandbox 15.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 12.2%, Open World 9.9%
