- #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 16.9%, Simulation 12.9%, Strategy 10.1%, Management 7.9%
- #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 13.8% ★, Colony Sim 11.6%, Survival 10.4%, Post-apocalyptic 9.7%
- #3 The Last Haven
96% matchMixed61% of 1,537 reviews2023
Dev: Thunder Devs.
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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 16.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Survival 10.5%, Simulation 9%
- #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 15.9%, Survival 14%, 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 12.4%, Simulation 11.1%, Strategy 10.4%
- #6 Rows Of Earth
93% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Glasworks Studios
Windows
A detailed zombie-survival colony sim where you create a settlement on an infested island. Guide your workers as they build walls, grow crops, dig trenches and plant their flag in the land. Help them to fight hordes, form families, and uncover old technologies. Write their story...
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.9%, Base Building 21.1%, Simulation 14.7%, Strategy 12.4%, Survival 11.5%
- #7 Goblin Colony
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quench Forge
Windows
Goblins live for about 20 days. Build a colony that outlasts them. Grow food, dig into the hillside, organize workshops and hauling, and prepare for raids. Raise the next generation and turn a woodland settlement into a fortress of their own.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.1%, Base Building 20%, Strategy 10.6%, Simulation 10.6%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #8 Life in Bunker
92% matchMixed59% 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 23.4%, Survival 18.2%, Simulation 16.3%, Strategy 16%, Post-apocalyptic 10.3%
- #9 Sheltered 2
91% matchMixed45% of 2,222 reviews2021
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 67%
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 17.9%, Post-apocalyptic 14.1%, Survival 14.1%, Resource Management 11.7%
- #10 Oxygen: First Breath
90% matchVery Positive89% of 1,666 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 8.0 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 19.6%, Colony Sim 16.3%, Survival 11.5%, Strategy 10.5%, Simulation 10.3%
- #11 Infection Free Zone
89% matchVery Positive81% of 18,697 reviews2024
Dev: Jutsu GamesPub: Games Operators
Windows
Median: 7.3 hrsMean: 19.0 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 20.6%, Post-apocalyptic 12.6%, Colony Sim 11.1%, Zombies 9.8%, Outbreak Sim 9.6% ★
- #12 Zombie Colony
89% 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 12.4%, Outbreak Sim 11.6% ★, Zombies 11.5%, Simulation 11.1%
- #13 Sigma Draconis
88% 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 20.8%, Strategy 18.1%, Base Building 17.3%, Simulation 15.7%, 2.5D 11.7%
- #14 Surviving the Aftermath
87% matchMixed70% of 4,648 reviews2021
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 18.3 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 15.8%, Base Building 14.2%, Strategy 13.8%, Simulation 13%
- #15 Galaxy Scavengers
86% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Team Asterisk
Windows
Mine, build, upgrade, and extract. Scavenge planets in a base-building resource management sim. Gather materials, construct facilities, and order units to survive in a hostile galaxy. Launch your base to the next zone before planetary threats overwhelm you.
Why similar: Base Building 24.6%, Colony Sim 14%, Survival 13.9%, Strategy 13.7%, Simulation 10.5%
- #16 Dwellers of Terra
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: McJz
Windows
A first-person survival colony sim. Scavenge, craft and repair a broken colony. Recruit survivors to help you produce valuable resources and defend against a constant barrage of deadly attacks.
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.8%, Base Building 15.6%, Survival 12%, Post-apocalyptic 11.6%, Zombies 10.5%
- #17 Resilient
85% 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 15.2%, Base Building 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%, Dystopian 8.7%, Survival 8.1%
- #18 Breadoria
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Breadpan
Windows
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 23.1%, Base Building 21%, Survival 12.8%, Simulation 11.2%, Strategy 10.3%
- #19 Lil Guys
84% 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 21.1%, Base Building 20.6%, Survival 13%, Strategy 11.1%, Management 9.4%
- #20 Zomboard
82% 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%, Simulation 10.9%, Zombies 8.7%
- #21 Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation
83% matchVery Positive81% of 2,267 reviews2018
Dev: Suncrash
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 25.0 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 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 12.3%, Strategy 7.3%
- #22 Novo: The Colony
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Broken Future Games
Windows
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 24.2%, Strategy 16%, Base Building 15.4%, Resource Management 7.8%, Post-apocalyptic 7.3%
- #23 After Inc: Revival
80% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,512 reviews2026
Dev: Ndemic Creations
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 9.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Can you rebuild civilization after a zombie apocalypse? From the creator of Plague Inc. comes a unique blend of strategic simulation, survival city builder and ‘mini 4X’. Build post-apocalyptic settlements, harvest resources and shape society as you lead humanity out of the darkness.
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.1%, Outbreak Sim 13% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 10.4%, Dystopian 8.1%
- #24 Last Civilization: Inherited Flame
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WisPub: Studio Wis
Windows
Build a settlement around the last flame. Gather, construct, and research by day, then defend against the Shadows at night. When a village falls, carry its records and memories into the next civilization and endure one night longer.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.2%, Survival 14.6%, Base Building 12%, Simulation 11.8%, Strategy 10.8%
- #25 Stonedeep
81% matchMixed46% of 105 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 19.1%, Colony Sim 17.4%, 2.5D 16.3%, Survival 11.1%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #26 Zombie Motel 96
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OFFtheREAL
Windows
ZOMBIE MOTEL 96 is a tycoon at the end of the world. You check in, ration, quarantine, evict, scavenge and shoot to keep a roadside motel running. Every guest is one more gun on the fence, one more mouth to feed, one more noise the horde can hear. So, manager: how many people, for how many weeks?
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.1%, Survival 11.6%, Simulation 11.4%, Base Building 11.1%, Post-apocalyptic 10.7%
- #27 Oxygen
79% matchMostly Positive71% of 915 reviews2023
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 9.3 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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 18.6%, Colony Sim 16.6%, Survival 11.5%, Simulation 9.9%, Strategy 9.8%
- #28 Survival Log
76% matchVery Positive83% of 3,044 reviews2026
Dev: Midnight WorkshopPub: Lilith Games
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
The apocalypse is here, and you saw it coming. Survival Log is a zombie-apocalypse hoarding survival sim. 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 14.2%, Base Building 14.1%, Post-apocalyptic 11.3%, Survival 11.1%, Outbreak Sim 9.8% ★
- #29 Lead the Living
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Karagoz Studios
Windows
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 19.4%, Base Building 18.5%, Survival 15.2%, Post-apocalyptic 11.5%, Zombies 11.1%
- #30 Rebuilt: Last Settlement
77% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Night Farm Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Manage the last farmhouse settlement in a zombie-infested city. Grow food, craft weapons, send teams to scavenge, and defend your settlement every night from relentless zombie hordes until you are strong enough to escape.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9%, Base Building 17.8%, Survival 14.3%, Zombies 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%
- #31 Sheltered
78% matchVery Positive82% of 6,286 reviews2016
Dev: UnicubePub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 9.7 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 26.6%, Survival 22.7%, Post-apocalyptic 17.5%, Strategy 9.1%, Management 8.1%
- #32 Fallout Shelter
77% matchVery Positive88% of 82,902 reviews2017
Dev: Bethesda Game StudiosPub: Bethesda Softworks
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 32.2 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 33.2%, Survival 18.9%, Post-apocalyptic 16%, Management 10%, Simulation 9.4%
- #33 Cloud Exiles
76% 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 19.3%, Survival 13%, Strategy 11.3%, Colony Sim 11.3%, Simulation 11.3%
- #34 SeaColony
74% matchMixed65% of 82 reviews2026
Dev: Emindev
Windows
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 21.2%, Base Building 20.4%, Survival 13%, Simulation 10.2%, Strategy 10.2%
- #35 After the Collapse
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 215 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 18.9%, Survival 11.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.4%, Management 9.4%
- #36 Paradise Away
75% 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 16.3%, Survival 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9.2%
- #37 The Undercity: Last Light
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ufuk HalisPub: Evuk Games
Windows · Mac
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 23.2%, Base Building 13.3%, Survival 11.8%, Strategy 11.1%, Management 10.7%
- #38 The Bonfire 2: Uncharted Shores
74% matchMixed69% of 371 reviews2020
Dev: Xigma Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 8.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
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 18.2%, Survival 15.1%, Simulation 10.4%, Strategy 10.3%
- #39 Idyll
73% 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 26.3%, Base Building 24.7%, Survival 15.3%, Strategy 11.7%, Simulation 11.6%
- #40 Rise Against the Invaders
73% 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 20.9%, Strategy 12.4%, Simulation 11.6%, Survival 10.9%
- #41 Lost Heaven Station
72% 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 19.9%, Colony Sim 18.6%, Simulation 12.1%, Strategy 11.9%, Survival 8.8%
- #42 Cloudlings
72% 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 17.3%, 2.5D 14.5%, Survival 10.9%, Management 8.6%
- #43 Stranded: Alien Dawn
71% matchVery Positive83% of 11,546 reviews2023
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 24.4 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 26.2%, Survival 16.9%, Colony Sim 15.4%, Simulation 11.3%, Strategy 10.7%
- #44 Endzone - A World Apart
71% matchMostly Positive77% of 10,043 reviews2021
Dev: Gentlymad StudiosPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 9.0 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 15.9%, Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Strategy 12.5%, Colony Sim 10.8%
- #45 Our Freedom: Medieval Village - Prologue
70% 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 21.6%, Strategy 19.6%, Simulation 18.6%, Colony Sim 18.5%, Management 8.1%
- #46 After Long Night
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 464 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 16.8%, Colony Sim 16%, Survival 9.6%, Strategy 9.3%, Zombies 8.9%
- #47 BAIA
71% 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 21.8%, Base Building 15.4%, Post-apocalyptic 15.1%, Survival 13.4%, City Builder 10%
- #48 Tree House Colony
69% 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 20.8%, Base Building 19.4%, Survival 13.1%, Resource Management 11.1%, Simulation 10.1%
- #49 Kingdom: Classic
70% matchVery Positive91% of 22,754 reviews2015
Dev: NoioPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.3 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 19.5%, Simulation 15.6%, Strategy 15.4%, Colony Sim 13.4%, Survival 11.3%
- #50 Stranding Echoes
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mend Games
Windows
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 24.6%, Base Building 22.2%, Strategy 12.8%, Resource Management 11.2%, Simulation 10.8%
- #51 Oxygen Not Included
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 144,026 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 69.6 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 27.7%, Base Building 26.8%, Survival 15.6%, Resource Management 10.9%, Management 6.8%
- #52 Settletopia
68% 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 20.3%, Base Building 20.1%, Simulation 11.4%, Strategy 11.2%, Survival 9.6%
- #53 The Last Blue ―Youth at the End of World―
67% 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 20.9%, Post-apocalyptic 16.3%, Base Building 15.6%, Survival 12.2%
- #54 Maia
70% matchMixed44% of 1,065 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 28.2%, Base Building 15.2%, Survival 14.2%, Simulation 14.1%, Strategy 13.5%
- #55 The Last Few
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DroniX Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Manage a base of survivors during the zombie apocalypse. Send squads on sorties on a real map of any city in the world, make decisions via radio when they get into trouble and remember: you are powerless outside the radio range. Build modules, defend the perimeter and don't let the base die.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.6%, Base Building 17.8%, Outbreak Sim 14.2% ★, Post-apocalyptic 12.9%, Strategy 8.7%
- #56 Project Apocalypse
68% matchMostly Positive72% of 39 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 11.3% ★, Post-apocalyptic 9.5%, Survival 9%
- #57 Underground Nomads
67% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Funzen Games
Windows
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 25%, Base Building 22.3%, Survival 13.8%, Simulation 13%, Strategy 9.2%
- #58 Forsaken: Year One
67% 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 20.9%, Base Building 14.6%, Survival 12.4%, Post-apocalyptic 12.2%, Management 10.8%
- #59 The Understack Society
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Deceptive Games Ltd.
Windows
Stack cards to gather food, craft equipment and build a home for a society of misfits. Trade spare cards for brass and buy mysterious parcels. Recruit unique citizens, keep them fed and defend your growing settlement as the nights grow more dangerous. Something far worse is waiting beyond the gate.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.6%, Base Building 14.9%, Survival 13.7%, Strategy 13%, Resource Management 12.3%