60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Simulation, Sandbox, Singleplayer, Survival.
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.
Atomcraft
A sandbox adventure where every pixel is physically and chemically simulated! Build intricate, fully functional machines from the pixels around you. Harvest, react, and manipulate all 118 elements to craft everything from simple tools to complex systems.
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 25.2%, Steampunk 20.9% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Nature 9.7%, Sandbox 8.7%
A sandbox adventure where every pixel is physically and chemically simulated! Build intricate, fully functional machines from the pixels around you. Harvest, react, and manipulate all 118 elements to craft everything from simple tools to complex systems.
Why similar: Science 30.5%, Sandbox 13.8%, Education 13.6%, Crafting 9.4%, Survival 8.3%
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 30.1%, Base Building 13%, Sandbox 12.5%, Open World 10.6%, Nature 9.5%
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 28%, Sandbox 13.5%, Open World 12.8%, Resource Management 11.6%, Survival 8.5%
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 16.4%, Resource Management 15.7%, Sandbox 14.5%, Survival 10.6%
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 28.9%, Sandbox 14.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 9.5%
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 16.6%, Resource Management 15.5%, Survival 11%, Sandbox 7.7%
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 22.5%, Open World 12.1%, Resource Management 12%, Base Building 11.5%, Sandbox 11.4%
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 34.8%, Education 24.5%, Sandbox 15.2%, Simulation 11.7%, Crafting 7.7%
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 35.4%, Education 17.1%, Sandbox 14.3%, Nature 11.7%, Simulation 8.2%
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 26.7%, Science 21.4%, Sandbox 13%, Simulation 7.2%, Base Building 6.9%
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 15.9%, Sandbox 9.9%, Open World 9.2%, Resource Management 8.7%
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 12.9%, Sandbox 12.2%, Open World 10.4%, Resource Management 10.1%
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 29.1%, Sandbox 12.4%, Open World 11.9%, Survival 10.3%, Resource Management 10.3%
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 27.3%, Education 13.2%, Sandbox 12.3%, Open World 11.4%, Nature 9.5%
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 43.6%, Base Building 14.6%, Sandbox 10.8%, Open World 8.6%, Survival 7.4%
Hyper-realistic industrial simulation: 236 materials, 353 science-based processes. From stone to a Hyperdrive Engine — with real chemistry and deep automation. Your factory grows. Someone notices. Every decision is logged. Welcome, Director.
Why similar: Science 34%, Colony Sim 18.8%, Education 11.6%, Resource Management 11.5%, Simulation 10.7%
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 23.2%, Sandbox 13.8%, Simulation 9.7%, Character Customization 4.3%
A physics sandbox of our Solar System. Fly the planets, change orbits, and watch Earth freeze, boil, or take a hit. Spawn worlds, cross Roche limits, and inspect atmospheres, magnetospheres, rings, and stellar heatmaps.
Why similar: Science 35.3%, Education 23%, Sandbox 18.9%, Simulation 15.3%, Physics 7.2%
Power Network Tycoon is a physics based power grid simulation 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 30.7%, Colony Sim 21.7%, Resource Management 15.3%, Education 12.4%, Simulation 6.6%
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 29.5%, Colony Sim 19.8%, Sandbox 13.2%, Nature 11.7%, Resource Management 9.9%
Noble Legacy is a medieval colony sim where every villager has a purpose and every decision carries weight. Build a thriving settlement, recruit & manage your people, master a deep economy, and defend your realm as you forge a legacy worthy of the crown. What kind of ruler will you be?
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.2%, Resource Management 12.9%, Sandbox 11.3%, Open World 10.8%, Base Building 10.3%
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 25.4%, Colony Sim 23.1%, Education 10.5%, Nature 10.3%, Resource Management 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 24.7%, Science 20.8%, Education 12.4%, Nature 11.6%, Sandbox 11%
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 31.9%, Resource Management 14.5%, Base Building 14.2%, Sandbox 12.2%, Survival 10.1%
CircuitVeil is a Single-player / Multiplayer isometric factory game where you boot an artificial mind. Mine the substrate, build production lines, specialize as Engineer, Defender, or Prospector, and send your factory's output through the off-world transfer beam.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.4%, Base Building 13.3%, Sandbox 13.2%, Resource Management 12.3%, Simulation 12%
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 31.8%, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 11.9%, Sandbox 10.9%, Survival 10.1%
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 15.8%, Open World 15.2%, Crafting 14.4%
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 16.2%, Nature 10.4%, Survival 10%, Crafting 9.9%
Build, manage, and expand a medieval voxel colony in a procedurally generated world. Gather resources, assign AI-controlled villagers, reshape the terrain, survive changing seasons, and grow your settlement block by block.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, Base Building 12.2%, Resource Management 11.6%, Sandbox 11.5%, Survival 8.4%
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 33.6%, Base Building 14.3%, Survival 11.2%, Sandbox 10.1%, Resource Management 9.4%
Build, crew and command a colossal landcruiser across a dying desert world. By day you scavenge and produce; by night you defend against a swarm from the deep, roused by your own heat and vibration. Stop moving, and you become prey.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.8%, Open World 12.1%, Resource Management 11.9%, Simulation 10.3%, Survival 9.7%
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 24.2%, Colony Sim 20.4%, Resource Management 12.3%, Nature 11.3%, Base Building 9.6%
A deep sea adventure for 1-6 players set far beneath the surface of a vast sea. Fight, befriend, and study your environment to unlock specialised mutations and tailor ecosystems to thrive in. Spread Light in the Midnight Zone!
Why similar: Science 26.6%, Colony Sim 20.9%, Sandbox 13.1%, Nature 10.3%, Education 10%
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 32.8%, Resource Management 17.8%, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 12.5%, Simulation 10.2%
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 13.1%, Base Building 11.3%, Sandbox 10.7%, Open World 10.7%
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%, Base Building 12.9%, Sandbox 11.9%, Open World 10.5%
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 36.5%, Sandbox 16.8%, Simulation 14.6%, Resource Management 11.1%, Base Building 10.6%
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 15.1%, Sandbox 11.2%, Simulation 10.5%, Survival 9.2%
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 35.3%, Resource Management 18.3%, Nature 10.4%, Survival 10.2%, Base Building 7.6%
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 33.1%, Base Building 14.6%, Open World 12.2%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 7.8%
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 20.7%, Resource Management 12.9%, Base Building 10.8%, Simulation 8.2%
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 29.6%, Open World 17.2%, Resource Management 15.3%, Survival 10.9%, Base Building 9.5%
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 28.2%, Colony Sim 25.4%, Sandbox 12.8%, Open World 12.8%, Resource Management 9.2%
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 43.5%, Base Building 14.4%, Sandbox 10.4%, Resource Management 8.8%, Survival 7.4%
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 15.3%, Base Building 13.5%, Sandbox 12.8%, Survival 9.5%
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 15.5%, Simulation 12.6%, Nature 10.9%, Steampunk 8.2% ★
Gas reaction simulator. Build the ultimate jet engine, solve puzzles, or just make everything explode!
Why similar: Science 36%, Education 23.1%, Sandbox 18.9%, Simulation 14.8%, Crafting 5.7%
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 23.2%, Science 21.9%, Sandbox 10.3%, Nature 10%, 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 14%, Resource Management 12.7%, Sandbox 11.7%, Survival 9.9%
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%, Science 15.1%, Resource Management 14.8%, Base Building 14.2%, Survival 9.3%
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 32.2%, Nature 17.9%, Survival 14%, Base Building 9.2%, Open World 8.8%
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 38.1%, Base Building 15.8%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 10.8%, Resource Management 9.2%
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 29%, Colony Sim 22.6%, Sandbox 12.5%, Education 11.5%, Nature 8.2%
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 37.7%, Sandbox 16.1%, Resource Management 12%, Survival 9.2%, Base Building 8.5%
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 37.7%, Base Building 13.8%, Sandbox 11.8%, Simulation 11.4%, Crafting 6.6%
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 28.2%, Sandbox 16.4%, Nature 12.2%, Base Building 9.1%, Exploration 8.6%
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 28.3%, Sandbox 13.2%, Open World 13.1%, Resource Management 10.8%, 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 15.5%, Base Building 14.1%, Sandbox 10.8%, Open World 10.4%
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 35.8%, Sandbox 16.2%, Simulation 15.3%, Resource Management 11.5%, Survival 9%
