
Build up your company to mine resources and manufacture parts, research new technologies, build up your industry with limited resources. Can you survive the harsh arctic climates of a new ice age?
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Colony Sim, Strategy, Base Building, Management.

Build up your company to mine resources and manufacture parts, research new technologies, build up your industry with limited resources. Can you survive the harsh arctic climates of a new ice age?

Scherbenmark: The Old Mine
You are the Steiger, the foreman responsible for the mine and everyone who works beneath the earth. Hire and manage miners, expand the tunnels, secure valuable ore, trade your resources and keep the mine running. The deeper you dig, the greater the rewards and the greater the dangers waiting below.

Malignus
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.
You are the Steiger, the foreman responsible for the mine and everyone who works beneath the earth. Hire and manage miners, expand the tunnels, secure valuable ore, trade your resources and keep the mine running. The deeper you dig, the greater the rewards and the greater the dangers waiting below.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, Mining 23.3% ★, Underground 18.9% ★, Base Building 13%, Management 9%
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 29.3%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 11.8%, Mining 10% ★, Underground 9.2% ★
Defeat the onslaught of aliens by building your own moon base, placing & upgrading tower defences, managing units, and mining resources!
Why similar: Mining 18.1% ★, Colony Sim 16%, Underground 14.8% ★, Time Management 12.1%, Base Building 8.5%
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 21.2%, Mining 12.3% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Management 9.8%, Building 8.7%
We've finally found it. The P35 Semiramide. This old construction platform will be our home for a while. With its help, we can start the last surviving reactor. But on the way back, we need to gather as many people and resources as possible. Despite pollution, hunger, strife, predators and raiders.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, Mining 12.1% ★, Base Building 11.9%, Time Management 11.2%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%
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 22.8%, Mining 16.5% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Management 10.3%, Building 8.8%
An economic strategy where the player must adapt the colony to support human life on an uncharted planet. Production puzzles and unforeseen disasters await the player.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2%, Time Management 12.9%, Building 11.8%, Survival 11.7%, Automation 7.8%
Until We Die is a side-scrolling strategy game about defending your base where you have to run around as Ivan, assign tasks to people, and fight mutants in the post-apocalyptic subway!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.9%, Base Building 15.1%, Survival 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Management 9.7%
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 31%, Time Management 13.5%, Management 13.4%, Base Building 10.9%, Survival 10.1%
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 28%, Base Building 15.5%, Survival 11.5%, Management 11%, Building 9.7%
Manage an abandoned underground shelter, assign survivors, balance scarce resources, and prepare defenses against four escalating waves. Your sacrifices shape the ending—and victory unlocks an Endless Cycle with Anomaly Contracts and persistent talents.
Why similar: Base Building 19.9%, Building 12.8%, Survival 12.6%, Underground 12.1% ★, Strategy 10.5%
A sci-fi mining and base-building game where efficient mining is the key to survival. Gather crystals, expand your colony, upgrade your defenses, and withstand increasingly dangerous nightly attacks.
Why similar: Mining 33.8% ★, Colony Sim 16%, Time Management 10.4%, Management 8.5%, Base Building 8.4%
Build and lead a colony on the surface of an endless Wall. Manage resources and your people, develop new technologies, defend against relentless zyrex attacks, and send robo-spiders on risky expeditions. Keep the colony from collapsing – in Wall World, it's easy to fall.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, Mining 15.5% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 9.8%, Building 9.7%
You command a drilling train, leading a dwarf clan through the underground depths toward the planetary core. Manage the crew, complete expeditions, gather resources, upgrade gear, and make tough choices to reach the abandoned city and bring your people back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5%, Base Building 16.8%, Building 12.7%, Survival 12.1%, Underground 7.3% ★
Factor Y is a relaxing, large-scale, multi-planetary, mega factory automation game. Mine resources, craft new items and structures via recipes and generate your own, custom building blocks. Expand your factory to span across multiple planets.
Why similar: Mining 22.9% ★, Colony Sim 16.2%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 9.3%, Automation 8.7%
Challenging space-colony sim. Guide generations of colonists, raise and educate them, manage resources, and ensure food supply. Maintain a breathable atmosphere, tackle pollution, and refine materials to build essential structures. Terraform planet and build ecosystem to make it your new home.
Why similar: Mining 19.2% ★, Colony Sim 19%, Underground 15.8% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Building 8.8%
A tower-defence-like colony sim where you must extract resources from the land and produce fuel to escape the planet. Expand across each map researching various structures, creatively avoiding or engaging with local creatures to take their precious crystals. Research, Build, Expand, Extract!
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2%, Mining 20% ★, Time Management 15.4%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 10.2%
A sci-fi colony management sim with a focus on exploration, expansion, and survival. Rebuild your underground facility, manage colonists and robots, and uncover the mysteries of an alien world light-years from Earth. Dig deep, expand across the surface, and shape your new home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.4%, Mining 16.9% ★, Underground 14.5% ★, Base Building 11.7%, Management 10%
Build a living colony beneath a dying surface. Dig rooms, organize workers and keep food, power and morale in balance. Face breakdowns, earthquakes and difficult choices as you explore the deep and turn a fragile refuge into a civilization.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.2%, Underground 18.3% ★, Management 12.5%, Survival 10.7%, Base Building 10.3%
Grow your truck fleet, build your city and design a supply chain to extract, refine and process natural resources into complex items. Manage your factories and optimize delivery logistics to prevent traffic jams. Unlock new research and turn your small mining town into an efficient industrial city.
Why similar: Mining 15.2% ★, Colony Sim 14.5%, Transportation 13.3% ★, Base Building 12.2%, Management 9.1%
Gridmax is a tile-based survival and base-building game set in a strange alien world. Gather, craft, build, and explore at your own pace as you grow your team, establish homes across the grid, advance your technology, and search for a way home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.5%, Base Building 18.3%, Management 13.3%, Survival 12.9%, Building 12.2%
Avian Colony is a survival simulation game that places you in the role of the ruler of a floating colony in a harsh sky world. Your main goal is to ensure the survival and prosperity of your colony by managing resources, planning strategically, and defending against threats.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.3%, Base Building 15.9%, Management 12.4%, Survival 11.8%, Time Management 6.3%
Humans are extinct, and Goblins proudly stand at the top of the food chain! Take over a mine, expand your surface base, and automate logistics. Manage workers, trade, avoid cave-ins and lava, and above all – try to endure your father's constant grumbling!
Why similar: Mining 21.5% ★, Colony Sim 20.9%, Underground 11.9% ★, Base Building 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 8.1%
Dig Inc. is a game about managing your mining company. Mine for resources in a procedurally generated map, fill your increasing daily quotas, and sell ores raw, or set up production between runs to refine them for higher profits. Invest your earnings into a growing talent tree.
Why similar: Mining 23.1% ★, Underground 16.8% ★, Time Management 15.6%, Management 11.7%, Building 10.2%
You control a small colony in the underground of an unknown planet. Mine resources, build a base, explore the world and technology. Supply your colonists with oxygen, food and energy so that they can carry out their tasks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.9%, Mining 25.8% ★, Base Building 17.2%, Building 10.9%, Sci-fi 4.5%
Dig, find valuable resources, and make your colony prosper in Dig a Little Deeper. An accident has taken your small group of colonists to an inhospitable and unknown planet. Only with your leadership and your management skills you will be able to build a new home. Let's start digging!
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, Mining 17.8% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Building 12.1%, Management 10.5%
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 31%, Base Building 16.6%, Survival 13.4%, Post-apocalyptic 13.1%, Management 6.5%
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 38.3%, Base Building 21.4%, Survival 14.5%, Building 10.4%, Management 8.2%
A brutal survival management simulator set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Keep your faction of survivors alive, maintain your shelter and scavenge the ravaged world for resources. Befriend and trade with the factions you meet or conquer them by force.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Base Building 15.7%, Survival 14.4%, Management 9.2%
A retro ant colony sim where your ants think for themselves. Place pheromone trails and your ants dig, haul, and build on their own, following the scent to work, food, or danger. Tunnel through a fully destructible world, farm the surface, outgrow the rival ant colony, and survive the dangers.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.4%, Mining 20.5% ★, Building 12.7%, Management 11.9%, Base Building 10.1%
Build a thriving settlement, manage individual settlers, master complex building systems, survive challenging conditions, and shape the story through your choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6%, Base Building 14.8%, Building 11.4%, Management 9.3%, Economy 7.9%
Manage inventory, staff, prices and more while creating a monopoly!
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.5%, Time Management 15.1%, Management 10.9%, Economy 10%, Base Building 9.8%
Paystreak is a top-down gold mining tycoon about running your own modern day gold rush. Take over a small claim, start by hand, and reinvest every ounce into machines, crews, and new land. Sell when the price is right and turn a struggling camp into a mining empire.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.7%, Time Management 19%, Management 15%, Building 11.7%, Economy 10.3%
Build and run your own space company. Launch reusable rockets, complete missions, and run a satellite internet network. Manage your factories and fleet, supply colonies on the Moon and Mars, and work toward terraforming the Red Planet.
Why similar: Mining 20.3% ★, Colony Sim 19.4%, Base Building 11.8%, Time Management 11.6%, Transportation 10.4% ★
Expand your base by building new rooms, recruiting workers, and assigning them to key workstations. Can your society overcome the forces of Nigredo? Time is of the essence.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.4%, Time Management 19.5%, Base Building 12.6%, Management 10.9%, Building 10.1%
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 27.2%, Time Management 17.4%, Survival 12.3%, Base Building 11.1%, Management 10.2%
Every big dwarven city started as a modest settlement under the mountain. Team up with your friends, harness the power of water, lava and steam and build a thriving dwarven city powered by automation. Craft stuff, tech up, make a profit.Contains traces of ale.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, Underground 15% ★, Mining 14.3% ★, Base Building 11.2%, Management 9.5%
Reclaim Earth is a base-building, colony management, survival game where you play as a semi benevolent robot crash-landed on a post apocalyptic Earth. You must build your base, enlist the help of humans, and defend against hordes of mutated bugs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.3%, Base Building 16.3%, Building 12.6%, Survival 11.9%, Management 8%
A space colony survival sim. Build a station room by room, lay the wires, pipes and ducts that carry power, water and air, and keep a crew fed, rested and sane. Build it how you like and keep it running.
Why similar: Colony Sim 32.7%, Strategy 11.9%, Building 11%, Management 9.7%, Base Building 8.5%
Build and automate your own ant colony – a nest that runs itself! Freely dig and shape your underground kingdom, produce different types of ants, and grow it block by block. Then it's time for conquest: scale up your swarm, crush enemy bases, and lead your colony to victory in the wild forest!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.6%, Underground 14% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Management 9.9%, Building 9.7%
STRANDING ECHOES is a minimalist colony sim. Manage the non-corporeal creatures called echo to build your base and survive the heat.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35%, Base Building 18.2%, Building 12%, Survival 8.8%, Strategy 8.4%
Manage and grow your tribe in this sandbox village simulation in a fully destructible voxel world
Why similar: Colony Sim 23%, Mining 19.7% ★, Underground 14% ★, Building 9.9%, Management 9%
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
Why similar: Mining 22.2% ★, Colony Sim 20%, Base Building 13.7%, Building 10.9%, Management 7.8%
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 40.1%, Survival 13.6%, Management 13.1%, Base Building 12.5%, Strategy 8.9%
A farming and automation game where your automation is people. Hire workers, pay their salaries, build their houses, and lay out your farms and factories like a town. Produce and sell valuable goods to keep your business profitable. This isn't colony survival, it's running a company.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.6%, Mining 12.6% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Management 10.8%, Economy 9.3%
Embark on a journey to build a prosperous settlement in this colony sim with a richly simulated economy. Manage the land, citizens’ salaries, taxes, and laws. Experience a detailed world where every action has a reaction, and even the smallest events can shatter the kingdom’s fate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.8%, Building 13.1%, Base Building 12.1%, Management 11.2%, Economy 10.5%
This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. 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 keep the Oxygen Center running!
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, Base Building 17.7%, Survival 12.1%, Building 10.9%, Management 10%
An evil scientist has kidnapped a kind, old wizard! As the magician's young apprentice, you might not have a beard, but don't let that stop you from saving his wrinkled skin! The journey will be fraught with obstacles but also filled with laughs.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.7%, Base Building 15.3%, Time Management 13.8%, Building 13.5%, Management 11.7%
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 36.6%, Time Management 13.9%, Base Building 13.4%, Strategy 11.2%, Management 8.5%
Become an underpaid, overworked middle-manager for the callous mine boss Glorgo. Amass a hoard of wealth, navigate the vast eerie alien mines, and encounter voracious plastic beasts in a colorful, Y2K-themed dystopia filled with mayhem, microplastics, and monsters.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.1%, Mining 26.5% ★, Underground 19.6% ★, Time Management 16.8%, Post-apocalyptic 3.8%
Build a towering casino resort and watch it come alive. Crowds flow, elevators jam, and tiny decisions create big stories as your tower grows upward, floor by floor. Build it. Break it. Fix it.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.5%, Base Building 13.1%, Time Management 12.7%, Transportation 11.2% ★, Management 11.1%
Survival Bunker puts you as a lone survivor in a post-apocalyptic world. Manage an underground bunker, gather resources, and face various threats. Your choices have consequences, and death is not the end; a family member will take over.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.6%, Post-apocalyptic 18.5%, Survival 14.7%, Building 14.3%, Strategy 10.2%
Earth is gone. The fleet is hungry. Drop a Hub on a generated claim, find the seam, and let the robots dig. Every machine you build makes noise — and noise is how the machines that took the planet find you. Hold the line, launch with the take, sell it, and go deeper.
Why similar: Mining 25.5% ★, Colony Sim 23.1%, Base Building 14.4%, Underground 10.7% ★, Automation 9.5%
As the Queen's latest governor, build a colonial empire in Her name. Claim islands, collect their natural resources, build production chains, and turn a derelict outpost into a rebellious, bustling metropolis at the heart of a New World commercial empire!
Why similar: Colony Sim 28%, Base Building 13.3%, Building 12.7%, Survival 11.5%, Management 11.3%
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 26.3%, Mining 14.7% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Building 10.9%, Management 10.1%
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 26.4%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 13.3%, Management 13%, Survival 11.8%
Gather exotic resources, build defenses, research new technologies, and explore the mysteries of the void, all while being chased by the darkness from the end of time.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, Base Building 18.1%, Survival 17.3%, Strategy 11.9%, Management 11.2%
Wild West Pioneers is a city-builder adventure about leading settlers into the untamed frontier. Build and manage growing settlements, establish production chains, and explore the world. Follow a story of gold rush dreams, dangerous encounters, and the search for your family.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1%, Mining 14.6% ★, Base Building 10.7%, Building 9.9%, Transportation 9.5% ★
Rebuild civilization in a world consumed by the blight. Manage survivors, defend against the dead, and transform a fragile camp into a thriving frontier settlement.
Why similar: Colony Sim 35.7%, Base Building 17.2%, Management 12.1%, Survival 9.3%, Strategy 8.2%
A roguelite automation miner. Every run: dig, deploy robots, lay roads, deploy buildings, expand, refine, defend - and escape before instability tears the site apart. Cargo you don't ship is cargo you lose. Permanent upgrades and new contracts wait at the Corporate Hub™. Sandbox mode included.
Why similar: Mining 28% ★, Colony Sim 19.5%, Base Building 15.2%, Automation 9.2%, Building 8.8%