- #1 The Blighted Frontier
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sly Game Studios
Windows
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 20.2%, Base Building 16.8%, Simulation 13%, Strategy 10.1%, Management 8.1%
- #2 Warranted Humanity
96% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2025
Dev: Jovano Software
Windows
Warranted Humanity is a post-apocalyptic 2D side scroller where choices matter. Fight different infected and rival factions, scavenge, skill up, craft, manage your shelter and other survivors, all in a race against time to ensure humanity’s survival before everyone is irreversibly infected.
Why similar: Base Building 15.2%, Outbreak Sim 13.7% ★, Colony Sim 11.6%, Survival 10.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%
- #3 The Last Haven
96% matchMixed61% of 1,529 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The world after a nuclear war. Manage the settlement, learn technology, make decisions, produce weapons, ammunition, organize defense, raid for supplies on other areas, do not let residents die, survive the nuclear winter.
Why similar: Base Building 24.2%, Strategy 17.1%, Post-apocalyptic 13.5%, Survival 10.3%, Simulation 9.1%
- #4 Never Secure
95% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Blank Page Games
Windows
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 19%, Base Building 15.8%, Survival 13.7%, Simulation 13.5%, Strategy 11.1%
- #5 Dystopians
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Space Boat StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
A cyberpunk colony simulator where you take over, manage & build bases, create & lead the crew to survive in a dark cybercity. Every member of the society makes their own decisions based on various factors and stats, for you is to decide and point out what would be best to do next!
Why similar: Base Building 17.5%, Colony Sim 16.8%, 2.5D 12.3%, Simulation 11.2%, Strategy 10.5%
- #6 Life in Bunker
93% matchMixed60% of 333 reviews2016
Dev: Flox StudiosPub: Flox Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 55%
You've been elected as the new Bunker Warden! Now you must take control over a group of fellow bunker residents and try to make them last until the surface becomes habitable.
Why similar: Base Building 23.3%, Survival 17.9%, Simulation 16.4%, Strategy 16.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%
- #7 Sheltered 2
92% matchMixed45% of 2,199 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 66%
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 18.9%, Base Building 17.7%, Post-apocalyptic 13.8%, Survival 13.7%, Resource Management 12.3%
- #8 Oxygen: First Breath
91% matchVery Positive89% of 1,655 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 40%
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: Base Building 19.5%, Colony Sim 16.3%, Survival 11.2%, Strategy 10.5%, Simulation 10.3%
- #9 Zombie Colony
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows
Manage a zombie colony. Mine, build, master new technologies, do everything to capture these pitiful people and their juicy brains!
Why similar: Colony Sim 19%, Strategy 12.6%, Outbreak Sim 11.5% ★, Simulation 11.3%, Zombies 11.2%
- #10 Sigma Draconis
90% matchMostly Positive74% of 23 reviews2021
Dev: Draconis Games
Windows · Linux
A group of colonists from a distant world have arrived at their new home. Equipped with advanced technology but limited resources, they must build to survive. Sigma Draconis is a colony simulation game which focuses on building and resource management.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, Strategy 18.1%, Base Building 17.2%, Simulation 15.7%, 2.5D 11.5%
- #11 Surviving the Aftermath
89% matchMostly Positive71% of 4,539 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.2 hrs≥1hr: 74%
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 17%, Post-apocalyptic 15.3%, Base Building 14.4%, Strategy 14%, Simulation 13.2%
- #12 Infection Free Zone
88% matchVery Positive81% of 17,997 reviews2024
Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 18.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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: Base Building 20.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Colony Sim 11.1%, Outbreak Sim 10.1% ★, Zombies 9.2%
- #13 Galaxy Scavengers
89% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
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: Base Building 24.4%, Colony Sim 13.9%, Strategy 13.7%, Survival 13.6%, Resource Management 10.8%
- #14 Lil Guys
87% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Radnyx
Windows
Lil guys building castles and fighting monsters. Build creative defenses, protect the crown, and make more lil guys.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, Base Building 20.5%, Survival 12.7%, Strategy 11.1%, Management 9.6%
- #15 Resilient
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CNRDEV
Windows
Begin with a handful of survivors after a 17th-century zombie apocalypse and build a growing colony. Shape its organic layout, establish production chains, define ideologies, and pass laws. Thrive by day, defend by night, and test your colony’s resilience against the undead.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.3%, Base Building 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.8%, Dystopian 8.6%, Survival 8%
- #16 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
86% matchVery Positive81% of 2,254 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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 21.4%, Base Building 19.9%, Survival 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.1%, Strategy 7.4%
- #17 Zomboard
85% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Tania Felidea
Windows
Zomboard is a post-apocalyptic colony sim and base defense game. Start with a few survivors, build your settlement, and fortify defenses to survive overwhelming zombie hordes.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, Base Building 20.5%, Strategy 14.1%, Simulation 11%, Zombies 8.4%
- #18 After Inc: Revival
84% matchMostly Positive79% of 1,315 reviews2025
Dev: Ndemic Creations
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Can you rebuild civilisation after a zombie apocalypse? From the creator of Plague Inc. comes a unique blend of strategic simulation, survival city builder and ‘mini 4X’. Build settlements, harvest resources and shape society as you lead Humanity out of the darkness.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.3%, Outbreak Sim 13% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 10.1%, Dystopian 8%
- #19 Stonedeep
84% matchMixed46% of 104 reviews2021
Dev: Direfang
Windows
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: Base Building 19%, Colony Sim 17.3%, 2.5D 16.1%, Survival 10.9%, Resource Management 9.6%
- #20 Oxygen
83% matchMostly Positive72% of 890 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
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: Base Building 18.5%, Colony Sim 16.5%, Survival 11.2%, Simulation 9.9%, Strategy 9.8%
- #21 Sheltered
82% matchVery Positive82% of 6,253 reviews2016
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.
Why similar: Base Building 26.5%, Survival 22.3%, Post-apocalyptic 17.1%, Strategy 9.2%, Management 8.2%
- #22 Fallout Shelter
82% matchVery Positive88% of 81,512 reviews2017
Dev: Bethesda Game StudiosPub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 32.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Fallout Shelter puts you in control of a state-of-the-art underground Vault from Vault-Tec. Build the perfect Vault, keep your Dwellers happy, and protect them from the dangers of the Wasteland.
Why similar: Base Building 33.1%, Survival 18.6%, Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Management 10.2%, Simulation 9.6%
- #23 After the Collapse
81% matchMostly Positive78% of 209 reviews2022
Dev: Anarkis Gaming
Windows
ATC is a base building game set in a post-apocalyptic world featuring urban environments. Build a base across several layers with dozens of survivors. Fight other factions for the control of the remaining production centers and explore the world to find long forgotten resources and technologies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.3%, Base Building 18.8%, Survival 11.6%, Management 9.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%
- #24 Paradise Away
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Awakening Studio
Windows
Manage a group of survivals in this base building game set in a tropical island! Will you be able to escape from the island?
Why similar: Simulation 21.2%, Strategy 21%, Base Building 16.2%, Survival 10.3%, Post-apocalyptic 9%
- #25 Cloud Exiles
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Yi Xian Sheng Ji
Windows
Rescue survivors and construct cities in the clouds in this post-apocalyptic simulation and role-playing game. Escape from frenzied zombies and a mysterious mist permeating through the air.
Why similar: Base Building 19.4%, Survival 12.9%, Strategy 11.5%, Simulation 11.4%, Colony Sim 11.4%
- #26 Survival Log
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Midnight WorkshopPub: Lilith Games
Windows
The apocalypse is here, and you saw it coming. Survival Log is an urban survival game about preparation and foresight. Hoard supplies, reinforce your home, and optimize every run before zombies flood the city. Every failure becomes experience. You must adapt and survive this time.
Why similar: 2.5D 14.7%, Base Building 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%, Survival 10.6%, Outbreak Sim 9.9% ★
- #27 Windowed Realms
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tiny Loom Studio
Windows
Build, manage, explore, and survive. Develop your village, discover new islands, face threats, and decide how your colony will grow.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.9%, Base Building 14.9%, Simulation 14.4%, Strategy 13.2%, Resource Management 11.3%
- #28 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
78% matchMixed69% of 365 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Build, survive, explore. Design your city, manage resource chains and workers, Send ships on expedition, trade with cities, discover mysterious dungeons and uncover secrets of ancients.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.3%, Base Building 18.1%, Survival 14.8%, Simulation 10.4%, Strategy 10.3%
- #29 Rise Against the Invaders
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BASEMENTMODE, LLC
Windows
BUILD. DEFEND. SURVIVE. An alien menace has ravaged Earth. Humanity has scattered to the wind. But hope remains. A resistance is organizing. Build your new settlement, defend your people, and fight to reclaim what was lost.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22%, Base Building 20.8%, Strategy 12.5%, Simulation 11.7%, Survival 10.7%
- #30 Lost Heaven Station
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Varnonsoft
Windows
Lost Heaven Station is a game BASE Build-Colony-Sim for players to manage crew to survive in their train and travel to find a ‘Lost Heaven’
Why similar: Base Building 19.8%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Simulation 12.2%, Strategy 12%, Survival 8.6%
- #31 Endzone - A World Apart
77% matchMostly Positive77% of 9,906 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Why similar: Base Building 17%, Survival 15.7%, Post-apocalyptic 15.5%, Strategy 12.7%, Colony Sim 10.8%
- #32 Idyll
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: IdyllWorks
Windows
A 3D voxel fantasy colony sim with online co-op. Build a settlement block-by-block, mine deep for rare resources, craft powerful gear, and defend your colonists from monsters and rival factions.
Why similar: Colony Sim 26.4%, Base Building 24.7%, Survival 15.1%, Strategy 11.7%, Simulation 11.7%
- #33 Our Freedom: Prologue
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vladyslav LytvynovPub: Two Cakes Studio
Windows
The medieval world is waiting for you! Stand up for your people and help them defend their freedom! Build your village, win battles and tournaments, and lead your settlement to prosperity in colony sim RPG Our Freedom: Prologue!
Why similar: Base Building 21.4%, Strategy 19.6%, Simulation 18.6%, Colony Sim 18.4%, Management 8.3%
- #34 Cloudlings
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Middle Space
Windows
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 18%, Base Building 17.2%, 2.5D 14.4%, Survival 10.7%, Management 8.8%
- #35 Kingdom: Classic
75% matchVery Positive91% of 22,621 reviews2015
Dev: NoioPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Why similar: Base Building 19.3%, Simulation 15.6%, Strategy 15.4%, Colony Sim 13.2%, Survival 11%
- #36 Stranded: Alien Dawn
73% matchVery Positive84% of 11,085 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 24.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
Why similar: Base Building 26%, Survival 16.6%, Colony Sim 15.4%, Simulation 11.4%, Strategy 10.7%
- #37 After Long Night
73% matchMostly Positive78% of 445 reviews2025
Dev: 疯狗工作室Pub: OKJOY
Windows
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: Base Building 16.7%, Colony Sim 16.3%, Survival 9.4%, Strategy 9.3%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #38 BAIA
74% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: 萌新所长
Windows
Due to the volcanic eruption, the climate has become abnormal. Floodwaters are about to inundate our homes. Commander, please lead the people to quickly build an ark and save them!
Why similar: Simulation 21.9%, Base Building 15.3%, Post-apocalyptic 14.8%, Survival 13.1%, City Builder 9.8%
- #39 Tree House Colony
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jens P. Behrens
Windows
Through an "accident" seafarers arrive on an island where they have to fight for their survival. Help them by building and managing a tree house for them.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.7%, Base Building 19.2%, Survival 12.7%, Resource Management 11.7%, Simulation 10.1%
- #40 Maia
74% matchMixed44% of 1,064 reviews2018
Dev: Simon RothPub: Machine Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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 28.1%, Base Building 15.1%, Simulation 14.1%, Survival 13.9%, Strategy 13.5%
- #41 Oxygen Not Included
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 141,608 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 68.3 hrs≥1hr: 86%
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 27.6%, Base Building 26.5%, Survival 15.2%, Resource Management 11.4%, Management 6.9%
- #42 Terra-7
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gamyeon
Windows · Mac
A sci fi business colony simulation on an alien planet. Extract resources, create production pipelines, research new buildings and trade resources with the Earth as you manage the expectations of your employees and defend from the alien flora that inhabits this world.
Why similar: Strategy 20.7%, Simulation 19.8%, Colony Sim 19.7%, Base Building 16.7%, Management 12.1%
- #43 Settletopia
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pēteris Pakalns
Windows · Linux
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 20.2%, Base Building 20%, Simulation 11.5%, Strategy 11.2%, Management 9.6%
- #44 Project Apocalypse
71% matchMostly Positive70% of 37 reviews2022
Dev: Sargonius Games
Windows
Build and defend your post-apocalyptic city in Project Apocalypse. Manage your survivor's needs, gather resources, and trade items to help them stay alive. See if you can create a thriving community in this harsh world.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.2%, Base Building 14.9%, Outbreak Sim 11.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Survival 8.8%
- #45 SeaColony
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Emindev
Windows
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 20.8%, Base Building 19.4%, Strategy 11.7%, Simulation 11.1%, Management 10.5%
- #46 The Last Blue ―Youth at the End of World―
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: afterglow games
Windows
Your youth,your rules.From heated battles to heart-pounding romance. This is a life simulation game set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where young people live their youth while surviving.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9%, Simulation 21%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Base Building 15.6%, Survival 12%
- #47 Forsaken: Year One
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kymera Games
Windows
Rebuild society as you see fit in this survival community management game. Centered around survivors, their needs and their relationships, you will have to make hard choices to survive and rebuild after the apocalypse.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21%, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 12.2%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Management 11.1%
- #48 Dwarf Things
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alex Makes Games
Windows
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 24.7%, Base Building 22.1%, Simulation 16.1%, Strategy 15%, Survival 11.6%
- #49 Landslide
69% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: 灵风工作室
Windows
Watching people run and build their towns in the mountains and resist the threat of local indigenous tribes! Here, you can destroy their town, open up the massacre mode, attach someone to their town, and experience new technologies, weapons, characters and stories.
Why similar: Simulation 20.2%, Strategy 17.7%, Colony Sim 17.7%, 2.5D 13.6%, Base Building 11.4%
- #50 Survival Bunker
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Df Games Studio
Windows
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 18.1%, Post-apocalyptic 17.6%, Strategy 15.6%, Survival 15.1%, Base Building 9.9%
- #51 Kingdom Square
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mete İlhan
Windows
A tile-based minimalist city-building and automation game set in the middle ages.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7%, Simulation 22%, 2.5D 18.1%, Strategy 13%, Base Building 10%
- #52 This War of Mine
68% matchVery Positive94% of 97,140 reviews2014
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 16.8 hrs≥1hr: 83%
In This War Of Mine you do not play as an elite soldier, rather a group of civilians trying to survive in a besieged city; struggling with lack of food, medicine and constant danger from snipers and hostile scavengers. The game provides an experience of war seen from an entirely new angle.
Why similar: Survival 26.1%, Base Building 14.5%, 2.5D 9.5%, Strategy 9.3%, Simulation 8.2%
- #53 T-Minus 30
68% matchVery Positive93% of 189 reviews2021
Dev: Dejobaan GamesPub: SUPERHOT PRESENTS
Windows
Plan a city and build a space fleet to escape a dying Earth before time runs out. You have 30 minutes to scavenge a post-apocalyptic environment to build infrastructure, grow crops, generate power, and assemble rockets to save as many people as you can.
Why similar: Base Building 21.3%, Colony Sim 19.7%, Simulation 12.4%, Strategy 12.4%, 2.5D 10.9%
- #54 Dig a Little Deeper
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Unbound Sparks
Windows · Mac
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 19.9%, Base Building 19.6%, Simulation 12.4%, Strategy 12.2%, 2.5D 11.6%
- #55 Adam: Robot World
68% matchPositive81% of 31 reviews2020
Dev: ZGame Studio
Windows
Build your stronghold and survive in the wasteland world controlled by artificial intelligence. Deal with relationships with other strongholds, develop allies or conquer them. Control pollution and fight against bad weather. Protect your base and destroy your enemy.
Why similar: Base Building 29.7%, Strategy 27.3%, Simulation 27.1%, Management 15.9%
- #56 Founders' Fortune
67% matchVery Positive80% of 2,183 reviews2020
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 56%
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 29.4%, Base Building 21.1%, Simulation 9.8%, Survival 9.2%, Strategy 8.7%
- #57 Arcbound
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outbreak Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set on a starship. Build and manage a spacefaring civilisation, balance oxygen, power, and crew survival, and guide your ship through the final escape from Earth.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.4%, Base Building 22.7%, Simulation 13.8%, Management 11%, Survival 8.3%
- #58 Frostpunk: 1886
66% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
A full reimagining of Frostpunk, the groundbreaking survival city builder, packed with new content. In a world ravaged by endless frost, become the Captain of the last city on Earth. Manage its people and infrastructure while facing cruel weather and even crueler choices.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.4%, Base Building 15.2%, Survival 12.3%, Post-apocalyptic 12%, Resource Management 11%
- #59 Beneath a Dead City
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Moonroof Studios
Windows
Run your own Adventurer's Guild in this fantasy colony sim with a focus on dynamic storytelling. Recruit heroes to explore a ruined city, but keep an eye on those murder hobos. An unhappy hero could turn to arson, violence, and jaywalking.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.7%, Base Building 21.8%, Survival 14.3%, Management 12.9%, Simulation 11.7%