Games Like Colony Survival

FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.

Why similar: Base Building 16.9%, Building 16.6%, Survival 14.5%, Sandbox 13.9%, Crafting 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the voxel-based world and heavy focus on automation and defense against waves of enemies.

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 30.7%, Base Building 15.7%, Survival 11%, City Builder 10.3%, Voxel 8.7% ★

Why You'll Like It: This colony sim allows for intricate vertical building and requires constant defense against raids in a voxel-like terrain.

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 40.2%, City Builder 13.3%, Building 11%, Survival 9.7%, Sandbox 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It features a charming voxel art style and focuses heavily on managing colonists and defending your settlement.

7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!

Why similar: Survival 19.9%, Base Building 17.6%, Building 11.4%, Zombies 11.4%, Voxel 9.2% ★

Why You'll Like It: This first-person survival game excels at voxel-based base building and intense defensive combat against hordes.

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 37%, Base Building 18.3%, Survival 11.6%, Sandbox 7.1%, Building 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: While top-down, it remains the gold standard for colony management, survival, and defending against external threats.

DRAGON QUEST BUILDERS™ 2 is a block-building RPG set in a fantasy land threatened by an evil cult. Explore, battle, build and harvest in the charming single-player campaign or build big projects in the online sandbox mode for up to 4-players.

Why similar: Building 28.7%, Sandbox 20.9%, Crafting 11%, Voxel 7.3% ★, Survival 7%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly captures the voxel-building aesthetic while incorporating NPC management and defensive combat.

A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

Why similar: Colony Sim 46.3%, Base Building 15.4%, City Builder 15.1%, Survival 12.4%, Sandbox 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: It blends traditional city-building with tower defense mechanics, mirroring the defensive needs of Colony Survival.

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Base Building 16.7%, Survival 16.1%, Sandbox 13.2%, Building 13.1%, Open World 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down colony sim that emphasizes combat, progression, and managing a growing settlement of villagers.

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: Base Building 29.9%, Survival 17.9%, Sandbox 14.1%, Open World 13.2%, Crafting 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes collaborative voxel world-building and resource management with a focus on long-term survival.

Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.3%, Base Building 22.8%, Building 10.7%, Multiplayer 7.3%, Sandbox 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It features first-person exploration and automation in space, focusing on building a functional colony on asteroids.

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 30.9%, Base Building 15.7%, Survival 10.8%, Building 10.1%, City Builder 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers modular base building and colony management within a survival-focused space setting.

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 31%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 11.2%, Survival 11.2%, City Builder 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: The foundational colony simulator that provides unparalleled depth in management, building, and survival against adversity.

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Why similar: Base Building 29.8%, Building 14%, Open World 10.7%, Sandbox 9.7%, Multiplayer 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person game that focuses on large-scale building and automation, sharing the satisfaction of constructing complex bases.

Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.6%, Building 13.9%, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This side-scrolling game combines colony management with voxel-based digging and defensive combat.

Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.5%, City Builder 12.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 8.8%, Survival 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that forces you to balance economic growth with defending your kingdom from dragons and invaders.

Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

Why similar: Colony Sim 30.7%, Base Building 16.4%, Survival 11.4%, Building 11.1%, Sandbox 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A complex first-person base-building game that prioritizes technical survival and resource management.

Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!

Why similar: Survival 17.3%, Building 17.2%, Voxel 11.8% ★, Sandbox 11.7%, Open World 11%

Why You'll Like It: It offers first-person space survival with extensive base-building and combat mechanics.

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 35.3%, Base Building 23.9%, Survival 11.2%, Zombies 8.7%, City Builder 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses entirely on the base-building and defensive aspects of surviving against massive hordes.

Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.

Why similar: Colony Sim 43%, Building 14.6%, Sandbox 9.6%, Survival 8.4%, Multiplayer 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based strategy game where you command units to build structures and defend against enemies.

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 40.3%, City Builder 12.9%, Sandbox 11.1%, Building 9.8%, Survival 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A classic colony management game that focuses on building, mining, and defending a settlement of gnomes.

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 37.1%, Base Building 17.5%, Survival 13.3%, Sandbox 6.3%, Building 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines colony management with tactical combat against supernatural threats.

Build a new home for your team of robots as they begin a new life for themselves on a distant planet where they can fulfil their ultimate dream: to be human.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5%, Base Building 13.2%, City Builder 11.6%, Building 11.5%, Survival 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the automation and logistics of building a colony, similar to the worker management in Colony Survival.

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 43.1%, Base Building 15.7%, City Builder 10%, Building 9%, Survival 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim that emphasizes building and simulation, focusing on the needs of individual colonists.

Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.6%, Base Building 14.6%, City Builder 10.7%, Building 9.5%, Survival 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based colony sim that focuses on the early stages of human development and settlement building.

Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!

Why similar: Base Building 28.8%, Building 16.3%, Sandbox 14.5%, Open World 11%, Multiplayer 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based digging and automation game that focuses on building efficient systems for resource gathering.

A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Survival 19.2%, Base Building 19.1%, Building 15.4%, Open World 11.4%, Multiplayer 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a first-person survival experience with a strong emphasis on building and defending your base against raids.

LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

Why similar: Colony Sim 48.7%, City Builder 18.1%, Survival 9.2%, Building 8.1%, Strategy 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval colony simulator that requires careful management of resources and villagers to survive.

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 34.3%, City Builder 14.4%, Building 13.1%, Survival 12.2%, Base Building 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that incorporates survival mechanics and resource management in a challenging environment.

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 39.1%, Base Building 18%, City Builder 13.1%, Survival 10.8%, Building 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: A space-themed colony builder that requires managing resources and infrastructure to keep your colonists alive.

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Why similar: Base Building 21.8%, Survival 14.9%, Building 14.9%, Sandbox 11.8%, Crafting 9.5%

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 32.3%, Base Building 16.1%, Survival 11.2%, Building 10.1%, City Builder 9.9%

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: Colony Sim 24.3%, Base Building 22.6%, City Builder 12.9%, Zombies 10.8%, Survival 9.8%

Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.

Why similar: Survival 23.4%, Sandbox 16.6%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 11.1%, Building 9.8%

StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.

Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, Base Building 18.7%, Survival 13.1%, Sandbox 8.8%, Open World 8.2%

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 34.8%, Base Building 13.3%, City Builder 10.6%, Building 10.3%, Sandbox 9.3%

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 45%, Base Building 16.7%, Survival 8.2%, Building 7.9%, Sandbox 6.4%

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 39.8%, Base Building 19.7%, Building 8%, Survival 7.6%, Sandbox 6.3%

Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.7%, Base Building 20.3%, City Builder 11.7%, Sandbox 10.5%, Building 8.8%

A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1%, Base Building 15.7%, Survival 11.2%, Building 10.4%, City Builder 9.7%

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 48.1%, Survival 13.5%, Base Building 13.1%, Strategy 5.5%, Management 5.4%

Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.6%, City Builder 13.8%, Building 12.7%, Survival 11.7%, Sandbox 10.1%

Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.3%, Base Building 21%, Survival 15.9%, Building 11.8%, Strategy 6.3%

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 32.8%, Base Building 20%, City Builder 11.2%, Survival 10.5%, Sandbox 8.6%

Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.

Why similar: Base Building 21%, Building 15.2%, Survival 14.5%, Voxel 11.8% ★, Sandbox 11.4%

Build a settlement in a realm recovering from the Fracture, a calamity that nearly destroyed the realm. Choose from several unique races, establish a new kingdom, and survive in a land filled with magic and strange creatures. Farm the land, fish the seas, or raid rival kingdoms for their treasures.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.3%, Base Building 16%, Survival 10.3%, Building 9.6%, City Builder 8.8%

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 31.6%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 10%, Survival 9.6%, Sandbox 7.1%

Dawn Apart is a space colony and factory sim with fully destructible environments. Mine, automate, and defend your settlers, or lead a rebellion against the very corporation pulling your strings…

Why similar: Colony Sim 45.9%, Base Building 22.7%, Voxel 9% ★, Crafting 8.1%, Strategy 4.7%

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 34.1%, Base Building 16%, Survival 13.8%, Building 12.8%, Crafting 7.8%

Make Your Kingdom is a city-building game unique to its genre. Play as a founder of the settlement — help build your kingdom, carry the resources, talk to other settlers, motivate them and fight off hordes of orcs with your own sword!

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.1%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 11.2%, City Builder 11.1%, Survival 10.7%

Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).

Why similar: Survival 24%, Base Building 17%, Building 13%, Multiplayer 11.5%, Open World 11%

A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 15.8%, Multiplayer 6.7%, Building 6.4%

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 38.5%, Base Building 18.4%, Building 10.4%, Crafting 7.9%, Sandbox 7.9%

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 29.6%, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 9.7%, Building 9.4%, City Builder 8.7%

Can your Colony survive 10 days or more in the desert? Find food, build your colony, recruit new workers, feed your population, craft tools and equipment, cook food and research technologies!

Why similar: Colony Sim 49.8%, City Builder 19.8%, Base Building 18.2%, Crafting 6.7%, Multiplayer 4.2%

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 34.1%, City Builder 16%, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 14.6%, Building 6.7%

Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.4%, Base Building 15.4%, Building 10.7%, City Builder 10.4%, Survival 10.4%

A sci-fi survival-crafting colony sim set in a flooded world of floating islands. Build a colony, craft gear, design rafts, fend off sharks, manage your survivors, and explore island bunkers to uncover lost Float-Tech from an old-world corporation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34.1%, Base Building 14.7%, Survival 13.2%, Building 11.4%, Crafting 7.1%

A village builder / survival game. Expand your village by day and fight monsters at night. Learn how to survive, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .

Why similar: Colony Sim 43.3%, Survival 19.6%, City Builder 18.4%, Strategy 12.2%, RTS 4.2%

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Why similar: Colony Sim 50%, City Builder 18.7%, Survival 11.9%, Sandbox 5.8%, Strategy 5%

Build a castle by day and defend it by night. Becastled blends cozy city-building with challenging tower defense strategy. Lead the Sun Kingdom’s last stand against the Moon Beasts and end the ancient conflict between light and darkness!

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.5%, Base Building 28%, City Builder 13.9%, Building 12.2%, Strategy 6.5%