60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, Sandbox, Simulation, Base Building.
Survive, teach, and evolve across 5.6 million years of human prehistory. Gather resources, build a tribe of companions, and guide your species through 7 eras, from the forest floor to the eve of civilization.
Starmancer
From a small 2-man team comes a unique space station management sim. Take on the role of an A.I commanding a lost space ark. Try not to let your crew run amok and wreck the place.
Woodland Rebels
Survive an untamed world where humans, animal villagers and wild animals all coexist, but not in harmony. Craft, farm, cook, and assign roles to villagers. Explore various biomes and muster an animal rebellion to fight back against human invaders.
From a small 2-man team comes a unique space station management sim. Take on the role of an A.I commanding a lost space ark. Try not to let your crew run amok and wreck the place.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, Sandbox 15.1%, 2.5D 14.3%, Isometric 11.4%, Management 7%
Survive an untamed world where humans, animal villagers and wild animals all coexist, but not in harmony. Craft, farm, cook, and assign roles to villagers. Explore various biomes and muster an animal rebellion to fight back against human invaders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.3%, Animals 21.3% ★, Sandbox 12.3%, 2.5D 11.9%, Survival 5.2%
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 54.3%, Isometric 20.3%, Historical 15.3%, Exploration 10.1%
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 47.4%, Sandbox 18%, Agriculture 11.5% ★, Management 8.3%, Survival 5.4%
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 51.9%, Sandbox 11.5%, Isometric 9.8%, Base Building 9.6%, Exploration 8.8%
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 58%, Sandbox 13.9%, Historical 12%, Survival 7.8%, Pixel Graphics 4.5%
Cloudlings is a cute colony sim set amongst the clouds. Guide a small tribe of curious creatures as they build a floating village, merge drifting islands, manage resources, unlock upgrades, and uncover the mysteries hiding beyond the clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 36.9%, 2.5D 14.4%, Isometric 13.3%, Base Building 7.2%, Management 6.6%
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 44%, Isometric 12.5%, Sandbox 8.9%, Base Building 8.6%, Management 7.9%
Explore a living freshwater world, form Soul Bonds with wildlife, inhabit different creatures, and build an ecosystem of your own.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.3%, Animals 19.7% ★, Sandbox 16.2%, Nature 8.1%, Exploration 7.9%
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 63%, Sandbox 13.9%, Base Building 9.4%, Survival 5%, Management 4.4%
Survive in a world drowned by disaster. Explore by day, hide by night, fight zombies, scavenge resources, build your shelter, and trade with other factions. Your survival, your strategy.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43%, 2.5D 18.5%, Adventure 12.8%, Sandbox 9.5%, Survival 7.3%
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 43.6%, Sandbox 19.8%, Exploration 9.6%, Base Building 7.7%, Survival 6.7%
Are you a master of the magical arts? Prove it in this cozy colony-sim wizard tower defense game. Curl up and build your base, keep your mages happy, craft recipes, research new magic spells, and defend your wizard's keep. Will your Artificer's Tower be the envy of all your magical friends?
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.9%, Cozy 13.4%, 2.5D 12.3%, Sandbox 11.5%, Base Building 7.2%
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 48.5%, Sandbox 16.9%, Isometric 11.9%, Base Building 9%, Exploration 6.2%
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 50.8%, Sandbox 13.7%, Isometric 11.8%, Base Building 9.3%, Survival 5.9%
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 45.9%, Sandbox 15.5%, Agriculture 9.4% ★, Base Building 9%, Management 7.8%
A friendly fantasy colony sim where you manage halflings. Start with nothing, launch expeditions into the wilds, experiment with crafting to discover new items, and evolve your settlement into a thriving, self-sufficient town! Inspired by the genre of RimWorld and the ambience of Stardew Valley.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41%, Agriculture 17.5% ★, Sandbox 15.4%, Base Building 8.3%, Management 6.3%
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 52%, Sandbox 22.3%, Isometric 10%, Survival 5.4%, Crafting 4.8%
Skyberry Garden is a cozy sky colony sim where space is your most precious resource. Design a thriving sanctuary on floating islands, master complex production chains, and harness ancient magic. Can you build a lasting home above the clouds?
Why similar: Colony Sim 51.6%, Sandbox 21.3%, Management 9.3%, Base Building 8.9%, Crafting 6.2%
Raise a thriving colony of unique hybrid animals - breed and build for satisfying genetic traits while nurturing moods and relationships. Choose to lead with Heart, Mind or Soul through each chapter. Decisions and events ripple through time - each MeadowMeld village is uniquely yours.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.7%, Cozy 15.7%, Sandbox 13.2%, Agriculture 6.5% ★, Management 5.8%
Farm, craft, build, and explore a Beautiful isometric pixel art world. Explore new places and find new biomes to expand your list of items, buildings, and recipes.
Why similar: Sandbox 21.4%, Isometric 20.1%, 2.5D 19.7%, Adventure 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%
Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.6%, Historical 19.8%, Agriculture 14.1% ★, Sandbox 13%, Management 6.9%
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 59.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Sandbox 10.9%, Survival 8.2%, Management 5.5%
A survival platformer where you, a young warrior monk from the tribe of the mouse people, must ensure the prosperity of your home village and its inhabitants. Explore the forest, collect resources, fight monsters and uncover the secrets of the ancient civilization that came before.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.6%, Sandbox 19.5%, Adventure 10%, Exploration 7.9%, Nature 5.8%
Step into a cozy management journey as a Keeper and bring life back to a world quietly waiting to be healed. Craft the perfect biome for dozens of wonderful animal species and use your ingenuity to restore your planet, one ecosystem at a time.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.9%, Animals 28.8% ★, Nature 13.3%, Isometric 11.8%, Exploration 6.5%
Rebuild a shattered settlement from the devastation of the Black Plague into a flourishing Renaissance metropolis. Manage production, construct iconic landmarks, and recruit powerful masters as you play through historically inspired narrative missions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.2%, Agriculture 24.3% ★, Historical 16.7%, Management 7.1%, Base Building 6.5%
You're not just surviving — you're leading. An isometric zombie survival and colony sim: scavenge a world where loot never respawns, build a base that holds, and keep a community of survivors alive. The dead are slow, drawn by sound, and they never stop.
Why similar: Colony Sim 44.2%, Sandbox 13.7%, Isometric 8.8%, Base Building 8.6%, Survival 8.4%
The Spatials are back with Galactology! Design, build and protect your colony station from the many enemies you will make while exploring the galaxy and exploding their homeworlds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 38.8%, Sandbox 15.9%, 2.5D 12.4%, Isometric 10.3%, Base Building 7.8%
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 55.6%, Sandbox 14.9%, Base Building 9.7%, Survival 7.9%, Adventure 4.2%
Build and Manage your city. Raise your island from a small village to a big kingdom!
Why similar: Colony Sim 86.6%, Sandbox 9.4%, Management 4%
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 56.3%, Sandbox 13.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Management 6.2%, Survival 4.7%
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 50.1%, Sandbox 18.5%, Base Building 9.7%, Nature 7.7%, Survival 7.1%
AquaDesk - Desktop Aquarium is a relaxing aquarium simulation that turns your desktop into a living home for tropical fish. Feed, care for, breed, and discover unique fish through genetics and unlock new features as your calm desktop aquarium grows.
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.6%, Animals 21.5% ★, Sandbox 19.7%, 2.5D 9.5%, Nature 8.7%
A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.4%, Agriculture 20.1% ★, Historical 16.5%, Sandbox 13.9%, Base Building 6.6%
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 62.7%, Sandbox 13.4%, Base Building 9.2%, Management 5.1%, Survival 5%
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 51.6%, Historical 15.6%, Sandbox 7.5%, Nature 7.4%, Survival 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 40.1%, 2.5D 18.2%, Sandbox 13.8%, Base Building 9%, Management 6.7%
Summa Expeditionis is a colony sim and base building game set in ancient Roman Empire. Follow the career of a Roman soldier from Legionnaire to Centurion. Build and manage your camp, recruit more soldiers and face the barbarians for the glory of Rome.
Why similar: Colony Sim 37.1%, Historical 17.2%, Sandbox 14.8%, Base Building 7.5%, Management 7.4%
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 45.5%, Sandbox 14.2%, Agriculture 12.4% ★, Management 8.9%, Survival 7.1%
Stone to Stars is a colony sim and ruler simulator set at the dawn of civilization. Settle an uncharted continent, build a thriving settlement, discover new technologies, trade or wage war with your neighbors—and hold on to power as you guide your dynasty through the ages.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.4%, Historical 14.2%, Sandbox 13.9%, Base Building 7.2%, Management 6.9%
Forage, craft, fight, form clans, and expand your settlements in a dynamic, ever-changing ecosystem. Keziah’s Realm offers a unique gaming experience where you must survive in a rich, procedurally generated world, alongside intelligent NPCs who possess abilities equal to those of the player.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.4%, Sandbox 12.8%, Exploration 8.9%, Survival 8.2%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%
A minimalist roguelite colony sim about one family on the American frontier, 1609–1900. Build a homestead, survive the lean years, and pass the ranch down through the generations — every year ends with a family council shaped by what really happened.
Why similar: Colony Sim 48.9%, Historical 15.4%, Isometric 9.9%, Base Building 9.1%, Survival 6.3%
Build, explore, fight and rescue your goblin family from the human invaders in a sandbox survival adventure game. Play solo or with up to 7 friends as you rebuild your town, craft powerful gear, explore dungeons, mine rare resources, salvage human treasure, and befriend your goblin neighbours
Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7%, Agriculture 22.7% ★, Sandbox 16.3%, Exploration 7.2%, Adventure 6.5%
Beekeeper Simulator puts you in the shoes of a dedicated beekeeper, where you'll care for buzzing hives, harvest a variety of honey types, and expand your operations to build a thriving beekeeping empire. Nurture your bees, optimize your apiary, and turn your passion into profit!
Why similar: Colony Sim 40.7%, Sandbox 21.1%, Cozy 18.7%, Nature 11.8%, Management 7.8%
A sci-fi survival colony sim. Mine ore, craft equipment, and build a base. Recruit and provide for humans, robots, and aliens to grow your colony. Raise oxygen, heat, and pressure in order to turn a dead planet into a living one. Defend against enemy attacks and keep the base running.
Why similar: Colony Sim 42.8%, Sandbox 18.5%, Exploration 9.1%, Adventure 7%, Base Building 6.9%
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 49.3%, Sandbox 20.4%, Historical 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 4.6%, Crafting 4.1%
A voxel colony-building strategy sim inspired by Antigua and Barbuda and the wider Caribbean's history. Build block by block, manage citizens, trade exports and imports, and defend a small tropical island where every space and shipment matters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.9%, Animals 18.6% ★, Agriculture 18.2% ★, Sandbox 14%, Adventure 6.7%
ARUS-1 combines first-person survival with building a Mars colony. Play solo or in online co-op with up to 4 players. Explore on foot and by rover, secure power, water and oxygen, connect production facilities and research technologies for your orbital programme.
Why similar: Colony Sim 45.2%, Sandbox 21.3%, Exploration 11%, Management 8.1%, Base Building 5.6%
A peaceful open world of forests, rivers and wide meadows. Set out alone or with up to 4 friends to find the place you’ll call home. Build a quiet life or grow your settlement into a thriving new civilization. The choice is yours.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43.3%, Sandbox 20.4%, Adventure 14.2%, Agriculture 11% ★, Exploration 7.6%
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 40.7%, Sandbox 14.6%, Cozy 12%, Management 8.3%, Adventure 7.8%
Cats are taking over the universe. You're here to help. A colony sim where cats settle procedurally generated planets under the PAPPUS Program. Build your cat colony while exploring the universe's mysteries. Spread feline dynasties among the stars.
Why similar: Colony Sim 54.6%, Animals 13.3% ★, Base Building 9.5%, Management 7%, Exploration 5.2%
Colonize rich planets with vegetation or deserted moons. Build a functional and prosperous colony. Take care of your colonists. Experience adventures on distant worlds or build a colony on planets in our solar system.
Why similar: Colony Sim 46.8%, Sandbox 18.2%, Isometric 10.8%, Base Building 8.8%, Exploration 7.7%
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 50.1%, Sandbox 18.2%, Isometric 11.1%, Base Building 9.1%, Exploration 5.9%
Develop your own Lake! Balance the food chain and make sure the lake remains inhabitable to all of its residents. Unlock over dozen different unique creatures, including fish and invertebrates. Collect codex of all the plants and creatures as you expand your lake, and make it look uniquely yours.
Why similar: Colony Sim 41.8%, Animals 25.8% ★, Sandbox 17.8%, Nature 7.5%, Management 7%
Stranded after a shipwreck, gather resources, craft tools, rescue survivors, and build a sustainable island village before time runs out in this cosy single-player survival adventure.
Why similar: Colony Sim 50.4%, Agriculture 19.1% ★, Adventure 11.8%, Exploration 8.2%, Nature 3.9%
WilderLands is a prototype for a planet-scale sandbox showing the custom isocahedral/tetrahedral terrain engine.
Why similar: Colony Sim 51.9%, Sandbox 19.7%, Adventure 16.3%, Management 4.6%, Crafting 4.3%
Desktop Ant Farm Simulator is a lightly interactive productivity app. Start each farm with a sprawling grid of dirt and some ants. Watch as they dig out tunnels and pockets and listen to cozy lo-fi beats. The game window persists over other applications on your desktop, and is fully re-sizeable.
Why similar: Colony Sim 60.7%, Sandbox 24.9%, Nature 8.4%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%
Build a cozy settlement and economy where little Wuslers carry every single good on foot along the roads you lay out. Feed your mines, expand your territory with barracks and play solo, against the AI or with up to eight players on PC and Android.
Why similar: Colony Sim 43%, 2.5D 15.8%, Isometric 14.9%, Cozy 10.2%, Management 8.4%
The Prologue is just part of the gameplay that awaits you in the full version of the game. El Dorado - Prologue is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4%, Agriculture 17% ★, Historical 16.7%, Sandbox 14.7%, Management 6.6%
